For those of you that wanted to know what history looked like as it happened instead of after the fact, who wanted to know when the first pebble of the landslide started rolling before thirty years of hindsight made it obvious: I give you today at the United Nations. For fun, look closely at the faces of the Russian delegation, watching from calm the frantic troubles of another. That it was followed by a rather embarassing disclosure of the depths of executive depravity in shipping an innocent man to Syria to be tortured is icing.

You may now return to bashing John McCain and worrying about gay marriage.