…where jack sometimes does stuff, but mostly not

I’m trying really hard not to post a venomous diatribe about how the world is ending over the whole “el presidente can torture whomever he likes” bill that passed yesterday, so here’s something with a slightly higher funny-to-scary ratio. I give you Senator Trent Lott, philosopher of the human condition:

Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.

Now that’s the kind of cultural sensitivity it takes to win the hearts and minds, know what I mean? And it’s the kind of aphorism a man is proud to have next to his name in the history books. I predict many repetitions of this phrase in Senator Lott’s next reelection campaign. His constituency will love it; there’s just something about the phrase “they all look the same to me”, delivered in a down-home Mississippi drawl, that really does it for some folks, electorally speaking.

(p.s.: The world is ending over the presidential torture bill. Oops! Sorry. That just slipped out.)