coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

A few of those passages brought me pain,

unwelcome pain, and one of them was about the security

theater, you would think that if you had to defend

our current arrangements, which are presumably

going to continue until the end of space and time,

you would say that, well, they may be uncomfortable,

but at least they make it stronger.

But instead, what Bush said was, well, we may still be weak,

but at least we're more comfortable, which

is just the opposite of sort of the messaging

that you would want to hear, even just as a stab

at trying to justify what we almost endure every time

we travel by air.

But more substantively than that, out

one side of his mouth, he says that the bad guys in America

don't like pluralism.

And then he turns around and laments the increased

clashes among cultures in America.

And it's like, that's pluralism, my friends.

Welcome, everyone, to the round table.

It's good to be back in the host's chair.

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