Of course, I'm thrilled with Hugo Chavez's speech at the United Nations yesterday. He's got it right about Little Bush (pun on 'Little Boots' intended) being an alcoholic and leaving a stink of sulfur, but I think he doesn't quite grasp the degree to which our Chief Moron is a cocaine addict. And I think I do understand it...But where do I begin? First of all, be it postulated that there is such a thing (or faculty) as a Moral Sense, or Conscience, which, in normal people, serves to distinguish good from bad, compassion from selfishness, self-respect from self-worship. It is noticeably absent in our Boy Emperor--He just can't help smirking when he talks about killing people. Kurt Vonnegut is among those who have noticed it. It could of course be the effect of heredity--the love of torture and murder and the inflicting of it from his father (See Woodward on George Herbert Walker Bush in Panama in the early 80's), and the perfect swinish indifference to it from his mother. But, as Vonnegut has pointed out, Bush's utter lacking of a moral sense has a distinctly pathological character, which in my opinion belies the out-of-control cocaine addict. Because, be it secondarily postulated, what cocaine exactly does, is, paralyze, specifically, the Moral Sense (or faculty), in exactly the same way that alcohol famously releases inhibitions. Look at Bush's last press conference, as described by Molly Ivins: That antic "testiness" is obvious cocainism--and I think Molly Ivins would agree if it were proposed to her.