Crossposted at My Left Wing

Imagine traveling as a kid with your family. Your violent dad is driving. And he's drunk. What do you do? What I did was shut my eyes, curl up into a ball on the backseat floor and try to go to sleep.

Is that what we as a country are now doing about a president who is careening destructively across the globe and may be insane? Sometimes it seems so.

Dr. Justin Frank, an experienced expert in psychoanalysis and a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center, wrote the book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, published in 2004. It is a fascinating and disturbing study. Dr. Frank cautiously concluded in his book that Bush is a megalomaniac. His conclusion seemed a little understated to me at the time. In a recent interview with Buzzflash Dr. Frank updates his observations and acknowledges that Bush may be a sociopath.

Appearing on Democracy Now! this morning, Raed Jarrar reports that he was prevented from boarding a flight to Oakland at JFK because he was wearing a T-shirt reading "We Will Not Be Silent" in both English and Arabic.

Meanwhile, back on the rest of the globe ... life goes on, death goes on, war goes on, people die, people stand up courageously. For example, Lt Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to refuse service in Iraq, addressed the Veterans for Peace National Convention Saturday night. His speech, reprinted with permission by Dahr Jamail, is beautiful and eloquent. And he presents an idea, an idea which must spread, which is why I am writing this diary.

We have all seen this war tear apart our country over the past three years. It seems as though nothing we've done, from vigils to protests to letters to Congress, have had any effect in persuading the powers that be. Tonight I will speak to you on my ideas for a change of strategy. I am here tonight because I took a leap of faith.

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More news -- Police asked protestors to move along & arrested them when they refused.  Allegedly.

She and other families had gone to the gate to ask for a meeting with Bush. Then they were moved back & put behind barricades. Then they sat down. They were arrested after that. According to MSNBC.