axis turns, world whirls, fox spins, evil wins

this morning, as we awaited the seismographers' nk nuke test verdict, fox666news paired up a gop spokesman with a token dem to spin the axis of evil speech into proof of king georgie's foresight. (don't confuse such relatively mild pro-bushism with extreme gopbot delusional blaming of the nukes on clinton and albright for "coddling" kim.)

the dem stooge was too far behind the curve to realize that—rather than showing prescience—bush's infamous phobic fantasy so rattled kim jong il that he started thinking about building bombs, thus making the speech a self-fulfilling prophecy.

i switched to cnn and was startled to see the same public execution footage they showed a year ago. you know: the one whose voiceover says the firing squad's shooting somebody for "making contact with the outside world" tho onscreen a graphic says the accused "trafficked women across the border into china"?

don't get me wrong: i'm against capital punishment across the board, but i'm a relativist—i never condone it, but i can't really condemn folk who support it.

let's at least get the charges straight so we don't have to wonder if they shoot folk for real crimes or imaginary ones.