A family will go a long way to protect itself from being identified as "dysfuntional." Fathers who beat their wives and children, alcoholic relatives, and crazy uncles are among those whom families, (through denial and false smiles) try to hide the truth from the world.

The decision to forego the latest investigation into the NSA wiretapping because those being investigated won't grant the status needed to the investigators brought the absurdity to light for me.

Then, I woke up to hear that just about everyone in the good old US of A has had their mundane; their private; their business; and whatever kind of phone calls we make--->noted by Uncle Dubya Sam.

Then, I read Sid Blumenthol's amazing take on what Bush has done to the CIA:

I have to admit, I am of two minds:

On the one hand George Bush is a crazy uncle that the Congress is too emabarrassed to go after, because to admit his lunacy would so profoundly weaken our country that the price of truth is just too high. Since most of their friends and contributors are doing ok, they have just decided to keep it in the family for now.... I mean, how much more damage can he do?

On the other hand, I have to ask myself, how has he managed to gut the CIA, castrate the Congress, declare an undeclared war, break laws without having to answer for it; and on and on. But most of all, how did he manage to bask in the GLORY? of the (predicted) worst attack on the United States, EVER? How did he manage to turn this to his advantage when he ignored the warnings and continued to clear brush?

Is this a crazy uncle, or the most nefarious enemy our country has every known?