Eliot Weinberger is some nerd. He wrote a neat article that you can read here. What sucks is that someone can write an article like this—it levies some heavy charges on the Bush administration—and it does not sound hysterical.

Here’s a taste:

Perhaps it cannot be stopped, but the first step toward slowing it down is the recognition that this is an American government unlike any other in this country’s history, and one for whom democracy is an obstacle.