I just got back from spending a week or so in the US. I’m perfectly comfortable in either Japan or the US, but recently political news in the US has gotten strange. I simply can’t watch TV news there. It seems like the anchors are all very upset about something and are often practically yelling at the viewers. Real people simply do not talk that way.

Another gem was catching Ann Coulter on Leno complaining that the mainstream media was somehow preventing her from explaining the inaccuracies in the statements of the 9-11 widows. What struck me odd about this is that:

1. At no time did she actually mention any of these inaccuracies, she just complained that somehow she was being prevented from talking about them.
2. This woman has a syndicated column that appears in over 100 newspapers, is a regular commentator on Fox news, has the best-selling book in the US at the moment, and is appearing on the talk-show circuit complaining her views are suppressed by the mainstream media. Ann Coulter *is* the mainstream media.

It’s theater of the bizarre.

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