And, there’s nothing like the First Amendment. When Valla speaks it reminds me how necessary it is to test my home fire alarm system, too.

I could care less what these people think. Hitler’s dead. And, when people who want him back, ask, I tell them that when they fart into their underpants they can smell what’s left of him.

The universe always produces less than bright people. But it terms of real power politic? Nothing beats what our Founding Father’s understood as everyone’s right to say what they please.

The weakest people tattoo nazi insigna on their heads. And, besides being stupid, they look ugly, too. (See? First Amendment speech. Share. There’s enough to go around.)

And, it also releases tension! Don’t be afraid of the idiots. Even when they teach classes at Tulane. Kids need classes where they can continue to sleep and not have to get out of bed and dress to go to lectures. Valla is just a creature that’s a place holder between beers, and condoms.

Stability in the service of tyranny is no virtue. Instability induced in a tyranny is no vice.

The situation in the ME cannot be improved until it is knocked down. It is not a house worthy of renovations – it needs knocking down.

Ifthe Guardian believes that’s Assad’s plan, it reminds me of the old Nazi joke with the punchline, “Has der Fuhrer seen this map”? Quick note:

Iraq: Country size of California. Three hostile borders.

Lebanon: New Hampshire without the trees and hills. The two most powerful armies in the Middle East poised on its and the Syrian border, and the world’s biggest navy offshore.

It’s not a quagmire if it doesn’t come above above your bootheels.

This was the cloddish phrase of choice on the BBC over the weekend– the program presenter used it at least twice, he’s so fond of it– and they rolled out a supposed British expert on Lebanon who sounded more like a partner at Kissinger Associates than a journalist describing the extraordinary events of the last few weeks.

Less clumsy but just as foolish, the Guardian warns, or perhaps dreams, that Assad’s “trump card” will be to make Lebanon “the next Iraq,” sucking in the US and Israel into a disintegrating Lebanon.

Remember your keywords: preferred nouns are instability, civil war, whirlwind; preferred verbal phrases are trigger, erupt, spiral out of control, collapse into anarchy.

They could be right. But I wouldn’t bet on it. The smart money’s on the other side– the side of the true progressives.