EXTRASTUPID PERCEPTION

Holy shit, you will not believe what I just heard in 2 Way. Hondo_1887 was on the mic, saying some ludicrous nonsense about how the reporters aren't reporting all the schools being painted in Iraq (hey, who can paint schools when they keep finding decapitated corpses and getting shot at and blown up). Hondo even had some weird theory about why Bush was secretly confabbing with teporters off the record.

But get this: as Hondo was telling us about how clever his idea was, he started chuckling a little to himself, like a drooling infant with a favorite toy. And then he said the following, I kid you not:

"Sometimes I think that Rush Limbaugh is like tuned into my brain waves. Like, I'll think something, and the next day, it's like Rush heard my thoughts, and then he's talking about it."

Now, some of you may look at that and say, "Oh, well, he's just saying that like it's a coincidence, like the way two people will think of the same thing at the same time sometimes." Let me tell you, friend, that was not what Hondo was talking about. His voice took on kind of a dreamy, far-off quality as he reminisced about how, one time, Bill Clinton didn't use some idea in one of his speeches because he, Hondo, had thought of it first and somehow communicated it to Rush through brain waves.

I don't think I can accurately convey just how creepy Hondo sounded. This is someone who clearly has delusions of his own grandeur. He was speaking about his interactions, his calls and conversation with Rush, as if he were a central player in this whole drama. Utterly mesmerizing. And yet, strangely entertaining. I sure hope there aren't any tall, easily barricaded clock towers around where Hondo lives...

JC