don’t you almost long for the days when Bush would just declare Islam a religion

Speaking of Bush allies, don’t you almost long for the days when Bush would just declare Islam a

religion of peace and blithely continue his war on Muslims? It was insane in its own way but it kept

the rest of Insane America quiet. Indeed, many are calling for the former president to weigh in on the

issue, because of Obama’s typical waffling.

I’ve been to this area several times — “several,” as opposed to “often,” because the Financial

District, and especially that part of it, is not a place to hang out. In fact it was a “Ground Zero”

decades ago when a real neighborhood was evaporated through the power of eminent domain to build a

complex of monstrous, needlessly tall office towers in a public-private Corbusian nightmare of setbacks

and concrete. And what is replacing this is hardly an improvement. But I digress, as usual. I have

really only ever been there to go digging through cheap designer clothing at Century 21 department

store, across the street from that big hole in the ground.