IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER?

Points against him:

He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;

He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;

He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;

He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;

He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign (Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);

He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;

He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;

He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.

I keep saying this and nobody fucking gets it.

Yes, but it would be nice if we did it voluntarily, you know? It's nice to sit in an ivory tower and pontificate about natural cycles related to scarcity, but in reality you might be the person dying.

Not that we'll ever learn to do it voluntarily. Everyone seems to thing they have a right to consume, whether they be the stinking rich (Western societies), or the stinking poor (hey, all the rich people do it!).