I've been pretty busy recently, which is why there haven't been any posts here for a while now. I've just about sworn off politics, given that it'll likely give me an ulcer long before I'm influential enough to change the world.

Which is why I was surprised to find out yesterday that Saddam's already been executed. The interesting part, to me, was that the newspapers that ran stories about how bad Chile's Augusto Pinochet was were the same ones that wrote Saddam wasn't all that bad or a terrible victim. And the ones that said Pinochet wasn't all that bad, well, they toed the party line as well.

Something's wrong when people choose which dictators to like because of political affiliation.