I was listening to NPR earlier today - ok, so half of you guys think NPR is part of the vast left-wing conspiracy and the other half consider it to be part of the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Main Stream Media...and then there is the 1/2 of one percent who consider the vast left-wing conspiracy and the MSM to be the same thing, but they are really wierd...anyway, they were discussing the factoid that both Senator Obama and Senator McCain list For Whom the Bell Tolls as a favorite book, and consider Hemingway's protagonist to be a personal hero.

For those who haven't read it, or who have forgotten 7th grade Lit, he died fighting in Spain against the Fascists in the late 1930s. For decades, anyone who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War was almost automatically considered a Commie Pinko Abraham Lincoln Brigade member. Joe Offer, you out there? Remember the Enemies List? So then, what does it say about both of our presidential candidates, that they think so highly of this guy?

Did you say "it doesn't say anything"? Congratulations, you win the rubber chicken!