Photo of a Vervet monkey by ld_germain (flickr)

They said it was for our country, for vaccine . . . But I think they use it for something else.

Barack Obama has often professed his willingness and even apparent eagerness to sit down with Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, affectionately known across the blogosphere as Monkey Man, to ruminate expressively on the common ground. Of course, anyone in possession of a worldview even millimeters short of psychotic realizes that the only such commonality with Monkey Man and his minions can be solely on the battleground. If you can’t see that the sawed-off little tough guy is feverishly preparing for war you just aren’t paying much attention.