George Galloway serves an important reminder that I think also applies to Hugo Chavez. It's funny when eccentric crazy people are doing things to irritate the wingers, but you always have to worry they're going to go off the deep end and say something stupid, like saying it would be morally justified to kill Tony Blair in response to Iraqis killed in the war.

As much as I like having Chavez down in South America doing crazy shit like wearing a sombrero and mocking Vincente Fox with traditional Mexican ballads, and generally irritating Bush, nationalizing resources and giving to the poor, you have to worry when he's going to snap and go off the deep end like Galloway has.

Galloway has definitely lost it, if he ever had it. Between imitating a cat on Big Brother, being implicated in the oil for food scandal, and anti-Israel extremism, this is not a guy we should identify with the anti-war or any other movement. He's our version of Pat Robertson (who by the way is claiming he can leg press 2000 pounds thanks to his own formulation of Jesus-juice). I guess every political ideology needs someone to make stupid threats, predictions of divine retribution etc., but at least we can openly reject ours. Can't we?