Being #5 You Try Harder

Alert reader Kim sends us news that the U.S.A. ranks 5th in the world for executions, behind China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Presumably if you added in the people we killed abroad as opposed to just those we kill domestically, we’d rank a lot higher. I’m surprised really. The Bush Administration is usually masterful at recasting statistics so they shine favorably on their policies. And we all now how important victory is to them. Geeze… 5th place… I mean… c’mon already!