Tonight, I intend to blot it out with dry, gay, British pop irony.

So I assume most folks, when having one of their sweetie's parents over, don't get sideswiped by a huge, rip-roaring debate over the role of Plato and Aristotle in the Orthodox Church and child-rearing.

I have to admit I was somewhat intimidated.

rip habeas corpus.

[The Military Commissions Act is]a huge sea change for our democracy. The framers created a system where we did not have to rely on the good graces or good mood of the president. In fact, Madison said that he created a system essentially to be run by devils, where they could not do harm, because we didn’t rely on their good motivations.

Now we must. And people have no idea how significant this is. What, really, a time of shame this is for the American system. What the Congress did and what the president signed today essentially revokes over 200 years of American principles and values.

It couldn’t be more significant. And the strange thing is, we’ve become sort of constitutional couch potatoes. I mean, the Congress just gave the president despotic powers, and you could hear the yawn across the country as people turned to, you know, “Dancing with the Stars.” I mean, it’s otherworldly.
-JONATHAN TURLEY, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR

I'm at a loss what to do anymore. Even my online-omg-i'm-anarchist friends will talk of sigils and someday-revolution.

Here's some impotent system floundering:
The Senators who voted for it
The Representatives who voted for it

good game. see you in Gitmo.