It's been a while since I finished the McGreevy saga.

I cannot begin to thank all the people who encouraged me with their comments, both public and private, but I will try to respond very soon.
One friend, while encouraging the fiction, said she was sorry I couldn't find the time to continue the political or observational commentary.
She's absolutely right, and I agreed to try to do both as the weeks wear on. There is another story in the gestation stage, but it will have to wait while I transport my mind from a totally invented world to the one you and I inhabit.
I was transitioning nicely, going from a Fascist America, to the "Good Ol' USA", when I came across this little article in an English Newspaper.
The World Cup Soccer Tournament is being held in Germany this year. Apparently German officials insisted that busses carrying the US team not have the Stars and Stripes painted on them. The 31 other countries participating will have their flags splashed across their team busses, but the US squad will not.
Officials are insisting the US keep a "low profile", fearing a bus with an American flag on it will provoke an attack... in Germany.
Mid way through 2006, it appears the flag of the United States of America has become such a hated symbol to some, that it's very presence is enough to trigger an attack.
On Friday, Bush said in an interview on CNBC, that the doomed passengers on Flight 93 conducted "the first counter-attack to World War III".
So it's World War Three now.
If so, it may not be unreasonable to think that displaying the flag of an agressor nation in a world war might rub some people the wrong way. Is it any wonder the Germans would be sensitive to an issue like this?
Coincidently, it was exactly 69 years ago yesterday the German airship Hindenburg exploded in Lakehurst New Jersey. The Nazi flags on the tail section were the first to go up in the hydrogen fueled flames.