perfidy

Hold your finger right in front of your nose. Close one eye, then the other. See how your finger appears to jump back and forth? That's parallax. A few feet away, the effect is almost indetectable. Hold to needles in front of your eyes. (Pointy bits facing away, just to be safe.) Its easy at that distance to tell that there are in fact two needles. Hold the two needles at arm's length. Much harder. The further two objects are apart, the farther you have to move away before they appear indistinguishable again. This concept has been used to determine the distance to nearby stars - using the orbit of the Earth as a baseline rather than the couple inches between your eyeballs.

So how frickin far away do you have to get to be in a place where you can no longer distinguish Hillary Clinton from Rush Limbaugh? Well wherever the hell that is, Cindy Sheehan's found it. I always figured that if you went that far left, you'd fall off the planet. In fact, I secretly hoped that that was the case. But in a letter published on Fat Bastard's website, she does just that, and as an added bonus throws in a lot of other loopy shit.

I read somewhere (I cannot now recall where) that the next time she uses the word "sacrifice" she ought to be referring to her son. Somehow, I think that isn't gonna happen. She says:

Playing politics with our soldiers' lives is despicable.

Hello? What does that make playing politics with your own son's death? Sheesh.