The submissions for this weeks Watcher’s Council contest are up. If you take a look you will find good stuff like this:

If you can look me in the eye and tell me that, in your mind, America is, in fact, the greatest source of evil in the world, then you and I have a serious problem. By saying such a thing, you are, by default, saying the following:

1. The US is more evil than North Korea, which is, even now, starving, jailing, torturing, and executing its own people by the thousands, if not millions.
2. President Bush is, in fact, more evil than was Saddam Hussein, though we have now discovered in the neighborhood of half a million bodies in mass graves around that now-liberated nation.
3. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan don?t deserve the freedoms that we enjoy here. Somehow, they were better off under regimes that, out of sheer capriciousness, might very well have chosen to have them killed…on a whim.
4. The attacks of 9/11 were our fault, and that, somehow, just by being Americans, the 3,000-plus people who were slaughtered that day ? men, women, and children ? had it coming.
5. It?s our responsibility to understand those who want us dead, even though this statement reveals a degree of cultural arrogance and psychosis-level projectionism that renders the holder of such a belief utterly incapable of intelligent discussion of the matter. The Wahabists don?t want to be understood. They want to reestablish a Caliphate; this reestablishment can only be brought about through the suppression/destruction of Western culture. If we will not convert, we must die. Period.

I could go on, but I?ve a life to lead.

Also, don’t miss this highly imaginative post by the King of Fools as he takes pandering to a whole new level. Will it work? I rather expect it will — Democrats have succeeded this way for decades and bloggers are, on the whole, a rather egotistical lot.