New website I’m starting to like a lot: WatchingAmerica.com.  It’s a Buzzflash-like roundup of headlines, but collected from media sources all over the world.

To those of you not yet in the habit of reading the news as it’s written overseas, the selections might seem biased, or even bluntly anti-American.  Which, um, is the thing.  After reading local papers during my own recent bounces around the planet, I can’t say this is particularly unrepresentative.

In any case, if you’re interested, the bottom of the front page also provides a ton of links to the home pages of media from across the planet, so you can easily do your own digging and think for yourself.  Bush really has alienated vast swaths of humanity, and the only place that isn’t screamingly obvious is within these very borders.

It’s a bit like having to live in an alcoholic household, really.  Inside the house, Dad’s really a good guy who just needs us to love him a little more and work a little harder and meanwhile the "good" kids are the ones enabling him and the ones who actually see that he’s just a selfish f***ing drunk are very, very bad.

I suppose this puts people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh in the enabling-mother role, unable to see the faults in the man they love, no matter how obvious, and willing to lash out at anyone who asks why he’s picking fights, not taking care of the house, and running up enormous debts.

Seems about right.

WatchingAmerica.com just makes it a little easier to go over to the neighbor’s house and see what our kitchen screaming matches sound like from across the street.