Armageddon: Or How I Learned to Love the World Bank

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder: One of the four beasts saying: "Come and see." And I saw. And behold, a white horse… And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, And I looked and behold: a pale horse. And his name, that sat on him, was Death. And Hell followed with him.

- J.R. Cash “The Man Comes Around”

WTF?!?! Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. To bring back (or paraphrase) a quote from a wise, elderly woman in reference to Bush’s re-election, “fuck all.”

Update: (from Elise) Ezra and Shakespeare's Sister have some excellent posts on this insanity as well.