Really. I have a rash. It’s itchy.

Some guy phones up a couple nights ago on TalkBack or whatever their “listener response” line is called, and starts burbling about Afghanistan. He says (paraphrasing here):

“America is just dealing with a mess of their own creation here. It’s their fault, they started it, and now they’ve got to deal with the fallout.”

HellOOOOO! These guys can’t even get their “I Hate Amerika” stories straight. Listen, chappy. The handbook clearly states:

Re: IRAQ – Amerika started it, it’s their fault, it’s a quagmire, it’s Vietnam, baby!

Re: AFGHANISTAN – How many civilians have to die! It’s a humanitarian crisis! The brutal Afghan winter is setting in!

Jeez, buddy, I think you have to adjust the tinfoil in your hat. The beams from the mother ship aren’t getting through right. You can’t blame America for being responsible for the Afghanistan situation unless you think America hijacked its own planes into the World Trade Center on Sept 11. Don’t you remember? It wasn’t America! It was the Mossad!

The CBC – makes you long for the dispassionate professionalism of the Boston Globe.