| Cindy Sheehan announced this week that she's retiring from ...well, whatever it is she does. She had a grand old run, spending two years being flown around not just America but the world, all the way to Australia. Alas, ingratitude is the prerogative of the people, as the late Shah of Iran once observed. And Cindy has been playing to smaller and smaller crowds, raking in less and less money and selling fewer copies of the many books she's cranked out. The final straw was being rebuked by Democrats for her criticism of their weathervane Senators. She's a sad figure and it speaks very poorly for the integrity of the anti-war left and their supporters in the media that they were willing to promote so assiduously someone who's so obviously suffering from a freakish form of mental illness. |