On CNN a few minutes ago I read something about a "state-sanctioned" protest in China.

Um, state sanctioned? Does this disturb anybody else? The news about the Palestinians going to fight for Saddam was bad enough, but marrying seething nationalist masses in China with seething nationalist masses in the Middle East is probably not what Bush and Co. had in mind.

Then again, if Josh Marshall is right, maybe that was exactly the plan.

Forget laughing. At this point, Bin Laden is dancing. This couldn't have gone any better for him had he been president himself.