So my country seems to have gone insane while I was on vacation.
I write a lot of posts in which I make fun of right-wing
crazies, and I suppose I'll continue to. But it's really not
funny right now.  There's a famous quote from Thomas Jefferson,
about the tree of liberty needing to be refreshed every now and
again with the blood of tyrants. When you see protesters
carrying signs that say things like it's time to water the tree
of liberty, as I saw on the news last week – well, they mean of
course that Obama is the tyrant, and the rest of what they mean
you can figure out for yourself.  There was an election. One guy
one, another guy lost. It wasn't disputed. It wasn't decided by
an ideologically divided Supreme Court, which gave the win to
the guy who won fewer votes. This election wasn't even
particularly close. It means that the side that won is entitled
to try to pass its agenda. But the protesters don't respect the
result of the election.  And of course, every piece of evidence
that runs counter to their