State of the Union

Views from around the globe:
In San Francisco, Mark Morford reports,

In one short year, the sneering, all-consuming GOP has gone from master of all
domains, from owning every aspect of the federal government and launching
multiple failed wars and abusing all laws and spying and wiretapping and
torturing and lying, to one of the least stable parties in ages. Scandals,
indictments, arrests, Abramoff, Enron, DeLay, thousands of dead U.S. soldiers
and nothing to show for it but more enraged terrorists, an economy running on
fumes. Regimes built on lies and religious fearmongering never last. It’s like a
genital rash — it just seems to take forever to heal.

From Boulder, Chris Locke illustrates… well, SOMETHING.

Halley reporting from menlomenlo says… well, nothing.

Liz wrapping her thighs around around the continent from Rochester to Redmond says… well, nothing.

From Capetown, South Africa, Golby reports on the US symbol swap, from Eagle to Condom (with links to the Times, and elsewhere).  ("A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of Dicks…".

Silence on the event from Beantown and Santa Barbara.

Ironic that the howl of protest should echo from Formerly Nazi Occupied France while Dubuque, North Platte, Santa Barbara, and Boston look on in befuddled silence.

Kate Moss left the building in a silver Mercedes.