I Robot

The Observer tells us of a new breakthrough in robotics; a kind of cybernetic pied piper that can look like a leader to cockroaches, luring them out of their hiding places into the light where they can stomped, flattened, smashed and otherwise destroyed. It uses pheromones to trick the loathsome creatures into thinking it’s one of them, just as Republicans use the stink of money to lure those without it to their ruin; use the stink of patriotic rhetoric,  the stench of fear, bigotry and superstition to lead what once was arguably the greatest nation on Earth to it’s sad and sordid destruction.

What reek, what foul effluvium would it take to lure the miscreants of the Bush Administration from under their rocks and what kind of citizens would have the courage, the honesty, the patriotism to sweep away the vermin and start to rebuild something we could be proud of again?

No one will ever do that for us and I fear that  none of us will ever be able to undo the damage any more than we can bring back the wooly mammoth or the Roman Republic.  George Bush and the worms that feed on the carcass of America have more cockroaches than we can step on.