And good riddance. The guy is such a right-wing warmonger, I once mistook him for an ex-Trotskyite. Dr. Gordon Prather calls him "Bonkers" Bolton, because his every assertion is a lie; his every action, a step toward war. A former subordinate summed up Bolton's personality with the phrase, "kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy." Sounds about right. At least he was a UN hater, (it's just too bad it was for all the wrong reasons).

From the suicide note of the guy in Chicago who burned himself to death on election day: "I have had one previous opportunity to serve my country in a meaningful way - at 8:05 one morning in 2002 I passed Donald Rumsfeld on Delaware Avenue and I was acutely aware that slashing his throat would spare the lives of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent people. I had a knife clenched in my hand, and there were no bodyguards visible; to my deep shame I hesitated, and the moment was...