I loved Mark Morford’s response to Bill O’Reilly’s suggestion that Al Qaeda blow up San Francisco for, as Mark puts it, “[daring] to ban aggressive military recruiting in our high schools so disadvantaged 18-year-olds won’t be unwittingly sucked into the brutish military vortex so they can be shipped off to Iraq to die for appalling and indefensible reasons.”
Mark suggests we “merely look at him like Shiva looks at a sea slug — i.e., a moment of compassion for his regrettable incarnation — and then laugh and shake our heads and move the hell on.” I most certainly could not have put it better myself.