In keeping with my conviction that we don’t dish out enough praise here, let me say that I think John Pod’s last several posts have been superb. I’m still laughing over his Spielberg-thinks-neocons-are-cons-who-like-The Matrix. Waydago John, you’re fab late at night (as the actress was wont to say to the bishop…)

Question: So far as I know, only two American leaders have spoken out to protest the savage treatment of the Tehran bus drivers’ collective (uh, union?): Jimmy Hoffa and Rick Santorum. Maybe the prez might toss in a line in the SOTU?