FORGET OIL, IRAQ'S ABOUT KFC

James Wolcott loves him so you know Jim Kunstler's gotta be good:

The public indeed may be losing its appetite for the Iraq project, but not for Nascar racing, fried chicken buckets, car trips to Six Flags, and round-the-clock air conditioning. What shock of recognition will flash across the TV screens when the connection is finally made that keeping all these things going is why we're in Iraq? War is the answer.

With a surname like Kunstler Jim must have really copped it as a kid – you know, like what do you get when you cross a kunt with a rustler? ... Maybe that's why he seems to be consumed with the left disease: hate.

I'll have the 21 piece bucket of original, thanks, and don't spare the oil.