Is Satire Dead?

The Boston Globe covers the State Department's human rights report.

Colin Powell and the rest of the cabinet didn't show up for the report's release wearing wife-beater shirts. Otherwise, the irony is pretty much complete. Richard Armitage gets the laugh line--he pronounced us fit to condemn human rights abuses in Burma, Zimbabwe, and Belarus. Gee, that's nice to know--better than Burma. That could be a new slogan. Land of the free, home of the brave, better than Burma.

At least we promised to "prevent future human rights abuses" in Iraq. Emphasis on future, I guess.

Is it just me, or can other folks picture Bush, Cheney, Rummy, et al, sitting before the parole board, asking for lienency? That'd be a hearing I'd like to see televised...