It really is mind-boggling, this petty contempt for democracy on display in the political press' mass reaction to 11-M... Even the Grey Lady offers up the inexplicably biased

At the same time, the White House and its allies tried to halt any notion that other nations might be tempted to follow Spain's example of bending to terrorists.

I mean, that's so boldly kow-towing to GOP talking points and teenage chauvinistic fantasy it made me think it was an honest mistake, in a paper whose mistakes are never honest, and whose truths are almost always accidental. The Michael Massig article is one long recitation of what's painfully obvious to anyone who has been paying any attention, and for that is totally refreshing.