Seriously, I'm more bent out of shape about the Dubai Port World thing than any of the others, though I'm not at liberty to discuss exam success or failure due to the Dombrowski Doctrine. At lunch today Jenelle and I were talking about how fear has gripped our nation - terror has won. An msnbc poll said that 86% of respondents thought the port deal should be cancelled, which is astonishing and nothing less. Eleven in twelve people think a bankrupt British company founded on the ideals of imperialism can handle our ports better than a thriving Arabian company founded to promote capitalism. One in twelve thinks this is dumb. I'm that one.

We were also talking about President Bush's agenda; it's so screwy and convoluted that we couldn't make any sense of it. At one point Jenelle suggested that perhaps one of his hidden policy agendas is probably to have the immigrant workers he's so gung-ho about dig a giant "freedom ditch" along our borders with Mexico and Canada and then a giant "freedom box" to put over the island they've created. That would keep us safe from terrorists. Except that then we couldn't escape the freedom box to spread democracy all over the Middle East, where terror obviously runs everything except for Dubai Port World, Inc. They're cool, I'm baffled, and it is the weekend.

Spring Break. Hooowah!