I hadn’t heard from Ted Rall, lately. It’s nice to know that some things never change, though–it provides a little rock of stability in an ocean of uncertainty.

Here’s his most recent raving advertisement of his apparently irredeemable imbecility.

Now it’s official. Bush is Ariel Sharon’s bitch.

Assuming that he means that in the family-web-site, female dog sense (usually a lousy assumption with Mr. Rall), which would make you what, Ted? An insignificant flea? Or a tick? Or some other parasite on the body politic?

George W. Bush dangled the possibility of American support for the creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank in exchange for Arafat’s ouster: “Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a Palestinian state can be born,” he said on June 24. Presumably that “new leadership” would be friendly to both American and Israeli interests.

Well, actually, what we’d like to see is a government that is friendly to the Palestinians’ interests. The present one has done ’em wrong.

Fortunately, that would be congruent with the interests of Israel and America as well.

After decades of abstention, the United States is back in the coup d’