Gentlemen, gentlemen. I am no Bushie. But Fascism has a fairly particular meaning. Neither Bush, nor his supposed puppetmasters (and I wouldn't be so sure about that part, fellers), nor the United States generally, fits it. Nowhere near. Today in my local newspaper a law professor declared that President Bush is the most dangerous man on earth. Tomorrow, that professor will be back teaching his classes at Yale---and receiving applause, too. This does not occur in fascist countries. Such as, just for example, Iraq. / The John Birch Society has been cited. The mortal sin of the Birchers was to classify everyone who disagreed with their paranoid views (including President Eisenhower) as Communists, or at best "fellow travellers". Now, Communism has a fairly particular meaning; and neither Eisenhower, nor most other nonBirchies, fit it. // Therefore: may we debate these important issues without calling names? Especially when the names are, well, stupid? / Thanks.

(btw I'm founding an advocacy group for the restoration of wooden toilet seats. The Birch John Society.)