"a sort of clown"

Gary Wolf, "The Church of the Non-Believers," in Wired magazine. A profile of today's fiery evangelists of atheism (Dawkins, Dennett, Harris).

Sen. Kerry

I just want to say for the record that I don't believe for one second that anyone, not Tony Snow, not John McCain, not anyone, believes that Sen. Kerry's remarks yesterday were intended to denigrate the service of American soldiers.

Their cynicism, which is what produced the Iraqi quagmire (hereafter known as "Operation Botched Iraq Joke") in the first place, knows no bounds.