Long Sunday

I answered that I had pretty much lost the habit of analyzing myself

Billmon has a funny post about Bush's sudden, rather unexpected decision to become an Existentialist.  And Jon Stewart's correspondent cuts to the heart of the debate:

"...with [Tony] Snow placing the origins of Existentialism with Sartre and Camus, and Bush arguing the movement's roots were more accurately traceable back to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche." 

Strong opinions on the matter, anyone?  Photoshop contests will write themselves, I guess.  (By the way, if you think our comment threads are junior high, just have a look around sometime.)

Murder Anyone?

"Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in action, can avoid committing murder.  We can act only in terms of our own time, among the people who surround us.  We shall know nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fellow men, or the right to let them be killed.  In that every action today leads to murder, direct or indirect, we cannot act until we know whether or why we have the right to kill." Albert Camus, The Rebel