De-Evolved

• The switch that flips when The Leader does something military.  (ETA:  Nicole Belle, Crooks and Liars,)

  Why, you'd almost have to believe that the media collectively gets hard-ons for the kabuki theater of pre-cleared military strikes. Shocking!
  
  Do they never get tired of being useful tools of a corrupt administration? Did they not learn this lesson after Iraq? What the hell is wrong with them?

  Barbara W. Tuchman noted this phenomenon in the last chapter of The Proud Tower.  Also, see Sappho (Noli Irritare Leones) for a further take.
• In memoriam: Tim Pigott-Smith, actor