War
I can't count how often I wished to live in that very close possible world in which Al Gore won the presidency (very close in terms of Lewis' similarity standards for counterfactuals, not in terms of overall similarity, sadly).
What worries me most is how many US Americans seem to back the Bush administration. I mean, when Clinton, like so many other people, had an extramarital affair and lied about it, that was a big scandal and caused an impeachment process. When Bush, quite unlike most people, violates the UN charta by going to war against a country that doesn't threaten the US at all, and keeps lying about his alleged knowledge of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and links with Al Quaeda, Americans just seem to buy it. Then again, they are renaming French fries. There goes my princple of charity... For now, I blame it all on the absence of a free press in the US, but I'm not sure if that's a sufficient reason. I also tried to read blogs of the war-mongers, but that didn't help much, it just left me very depressed for the rest of the day. It's like shopping at Kottbusser Tor.
Oh well, I should better be blogging about quantifier rules in axiomatic systems of predicate logic.