So how's all that stone-throwing workin' out?

Barbara Boxer finally says something, for the first time in a long time, that I agree with.

Barbara Boxer asks why we all have to be throwing stones



I'm just as baffled at President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, without a peace deal to his name, as the next person. Seems kinda bizarre to award a peace prize to a guy who snubs the Dalai Lama so he isn't a bother to his buddies in China who are just a little too extreme for his tastes. Having said that, I don't have a problem, in the least, with the Nobel committee encouraging someone who is more genuinely committed to peace in a world full of sometimes foolish, sometimes hateful folks promoting warfare, aggression, manipulation, and, generally, an obsession with power and our worst instincts to rid the world of those very impulses. Including our President, ironically, too often.

But I do think America and the world might take a step back and answer Barbara's question.

How's all that stone-throwin workin' out? We got any progress up in here yet? Things gettin' better? Isn't all this progress a little overwhelming? Isn't it awesome how much better everything has gotten the bigger of pricks we've become?

In fact, isn't the most incredible sign of progress exactly what colossal pricks we've all become in the name of progress?

Isn't that what progress looks like, actually?

How shitty we treat one another?

We treat people shittier. Things get better for everyone.

At least that's what the Taliban and our pals in the Chinese Communist party say.

And since we are weak and they are strong, it only makes sense to follow their lead.

Because, really, when everything is going off in such flying colors, how can anyone doubt all this progress?