(Rummy's) wife relates she eyeballed the Donald at age 14 and has been head over heels ever since, book to follow.

Breaking detail: Her nickname in highschool, when she eyeballed him, was "Birdlegs." She and Rummy went to highschool with two of my brothers-in-law, so I know this important stuff. (And my father ran against him for Congress in 1964, as regular clotheliners may recall, but that's another tale.)

Just drove the long haul back from Mackinac, longer than usual due to heavy rain and winds on the Michigan coast, and a 17 year old VW van that handles like a dinghy in a gale. I listened to Petraeus and commentators the whole way, which is a little like driving with your head in the garbage disposal.

Walked in to find jimfest (who drove home yesterday) tuned in to Jon Stewart eviscerating Petraeus and Bush, which was coitus abruptus, because I haven't seen TV in two months. And I found myself thinking, "at least someone in the MSM got it right." OH, wait, he's not MSM, he's a comedy show. Re-entry's always slow and painful.

And would anyone other than Bushco stage Petraeus's performance delecto on the anniversay of 9/11, IN CASE ANYONE FORGETS WHY WE'RE IN THIS WAR? On terror. In the wrong place. (Shhhhh.)

As for the boomer/geezer thing, we can be excused for a little distrust and paranoia, given the murders of JFK, MLK, RFK and the lies of Vietnam. (And yes, Paul and Sheila crashing from the sky.)

And it's not just lefties who've lost their trust. A guy I know on Mackinac, an almost rational Republican, (oxymoron, I know) is sure that the I-35 bridge was a terrorist attack, being covered up so we don't panic. The media, he says, is playing along. (I can't get him to tell me why we would panic if the bridge were blown up but be reassured by knowing that it was simply homegrown neglect. The devil we know?)

What I'm thinking, if I'm thinking, is that it's a good thing no one's trying to frame the constitution in 2007, because we trust no one, and agree on nothing.

This guy writes, "We hold these truths to be self evident . . .", and the room erupts in fisticuffs.