It's amazing to live in one reality and then have someone attempt to point out their reality...not an alternate point of view on a shared reality, but something that requires you to twist experience and fact into something unrecognizable. Charles often has this effect on me...and it's so strange that it's funny, at times, but today's paper also had a great piece that added to my understanding of the experience of the Muslim world that makes sense.  Bush took the administration of Iraq apart and left so much rubble.  The displaced leaders hated us, and add Blackwater shooting up what was left and you have a rich broth from which war and terrorism could rise...not so much a fundamentalism so much as hatred. Of course the extremists used this, much as does Ted Cruz, to raise the fear and anger of their bases. And the sick part is that there are a few crazies who will blow themselves up for the cause. Charle's acid trip is a very strange trip indeed.