Purple (middle) fingers, part deux...

The Nation – its pages getting thinner by each issue, it seems – is spittin’ mad. At least Naomi Klein is: Taking her cue from the fact that most Iraqis voted in their first post-Saddam election not only to oust US-sponsored interim leader Iyad Allawi and embrace the mullahs, but also to kick the rest of us over there to hell and gone, Klein is the only voice we can find which questions what kind of government we’ll be leaving the locals.