ok, i watched 3 minutes of Bush's state of the union address and had to hold back from throwing a shoe at the TV. all those people clapping like androids really drove me nuts.

on another note, a gulag in Lithuania is a new amusement park. People can actually go there to get abused. that's sick!

Visitors to the park pay to be "beaten, interrogated and shouted at" by tour leaders dressed as agents of the Russian secret police, the KGB. more here