All fun and games until someone gets hurt

As the national press corps emerges, stunned and blinking from their four year nap, the condition of the permanent government is finally getting some attention.

FEMA has been widely chronicled of late; now Newsweek turns a spotlight on the CIA: an Agency Version of the Jerry Springer Show.

You know, you gotta feel sorry for whoever moves into the White House in Jan 2009. They're going to find the Civil Service has been gutted; a core of deadwood and waiting-for-retirement disheartened professionals surrounded by a thick, chewy shell of corrupt Bush Family Cronies.

To Do: Fall 2008. Brush up resume.