i apologize . i really really fucking apologize. for comparing rick santorum to jeffrey dahmer. that was inappropriate. i only wish i'd thought it through before i said that shit. when i compared michael jackson and georges bataille, i must have been in one of my typical psychotic episodes. it won't happen again, and no one should believe what i said, or believe that i believe what i said, though i said it with total sincerity and commitment. when i claimed that donald rumsfeld "might as well have been" josef mengele, or when i  equated dick cheney to spiro agnew, i was just completely fucking stupid.  when i said that the bush admin was similar in spirit to the wicked witch of the west, in particular because it employed flying monkeys, i opened myself to criticism in a way i now acknowledge was imprudent. fuck you. and fuck america.