a few weeks ago, i set up a google alert for the term "anti-government." each day brings me (a) scary stories of anti-government extremists in the u.s.; people, even, that oppose multi-trillion dollar deficits because...they must be racists, and (b) admiring stories about dissidents in iran, china, yemen, and so on. with regard to domestic politics "anti-government" is self-evidently evil and incomprehensible. with regard to everywhere else it is the outbrak or democracy and freedom, a georgewashingtonesque excellence. people seem...confused.