Kill da wabbit

He may be facing all kinds of crises that I'm glad I don't have responsibility for solving...but somehow it's images like this that make me feel most sorry for Barack Obama.

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I mean...why?!

You don't see Angela Merkel having to do things like that.

Or at least (he said, pre-emptively covering his ass in case some smart person finds a rare counterexample) not so often...

Cult Following

For those of you interested in the psychodynamics of cultish behaviour, The Sueddeutsche has a rather disturbing feature (in Deutsch) on the Jehova's Witnesses, who demand to be officially recognised as a religious denomination. Of course, we all know about sectarian psychoterror, but it's chilling to read nevertheless.