Not Even Halloween Yet

You know what's scarier than the president not knowing the difference between Sweden and Switzerland?

More frightening than the president thinking the best policy with regard to Israel is to pull out completely?

Silly, it's the idea that the president and his aides believe they create the reality that you and I live and respond to.

"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"