I still find it nauseating that Fox News is held at the same esteem as CNN. John Gibson, in a “My World” commentary, blew a fuse about another CIA outing on the Senate floor — this time during the Bolton hearings — and tried to blame it on John Kerry. Lucky for all the Fox News viewers Brit Hume later acquiesced that both Kerry and Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar mentioned the operative’s name during the hearing. Of course, he failed to mention that Lugar broke the CIA’s request for confidence first and Gibson has yet to apologize for an inflammatory inaccurate OpEd.

I have yet to see this kind of unmitigated vitriol without appropriate recconciliation on CNN.

And celebration of civil society to everyone for paying taxes.

(Go below the fold to get the red meat – but in general, I am in awe of American society every April 15th, especially when viewed in context of the bloody wars and revolutions that have dominated the globe for the last 140 years without affecting the unique balance with which we have been blessed. The inflammatory stuff is mostly a mental exercise inspired by NPR’s great bit this morning with a Civil War vet recorded by the Library of Congress – the guy had a great accent, distinctly southern, but diction that would make any diction coach proud)