I was hoping to wake up last Wednesday (11/3/04), along with 56,158,908 other Americans, and who knows how many people globally, with a new president in The White House . I was hoping to wake from a 4 year nightmare of fear, war, mockery of Democracy, selling of the planet and, above it all, that smug smirk I have come to loathe with something like a visceral repulsion.

But, alas, some 59,651,290 of my fellow citizens seem to be quite happy in the dark depths of that very bad dream. They sent a man who should be in prison back to The White House.

They must be sleeping, right?. Or just incredibly dumb.