A reader writes:

“It’s troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church,” he began, before dissolving into a wry laugh. Andrew Cuomo (http://www..nytimes.com/2011/06/29/opinion/29dowd.html

“I watched [Larry King’s] interview with [Tucker], though. He asked her real difficult questions, like ‘What would you say to Governor Bush?’

“What was her answer?” I wonder.

“Please,” Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, “don’t kill me.” George Bush II (http://old.nationalreview.com/daily/nr080999.html)

America is a one-party state whose response to the Gospel is divided only by quarrels between the “Hee hee” wing and the “Haw haw” faction.

That’s about right.