The Stupid Party

While we read Powerline (no link) mainly for insights into how the Bush personality cult operates on its believers, there are times when we wonder if they're actually insane. Like tonight.

1. Their special bond with the Pennsylvania 9/11 flight:

Flight 93 has always had special resonance for me, as a constant business traveler...

2. The top secret brilliant laser beam that zaps only bad guys and so will win the war on terror:

Insight reports on military laser technology that "could destroy any weapon system without collateral damage":

--The laser could have tremendous repercussions on the battlefield, particularly in urban warfare in such countries as Afghanistan and Iraq. "It's the kind of tool that could bring about victory within minutes," an official said. ...
The project has been headed by Boeing Missile Defense Systems in a project with the U.S. Air Force. Boeing has already taken delivery of the aircraft and plans to modify the platform for the ATL program.--

Let's hear it for the Pentagon's Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration program, Boeing, and whoever else is involved. The conventional wisdom is that in asymmetrical warfare, time is on the side of the primitives. That fails to take into account, however, that for us, the pace of technological improvement is constantly accelerating, whereas for them...there are only so many ways you can boil a goat in a cave.
[no discussion of how the cavemen managed to pull off item 1 above, by the way]

3. Why Al Gore lost the 2000 election:

Al Gore might well be president today if he had meet (sic) the American public's expectations for decorum.