I walked to the grocery store just now to get some bleach, and instead I got an earful from the cleaning products lady about how the US would just be wandering into another Vietnam if it tried to defend Taiwan from an attack by China, and about how the US brought 911 upon itself by provoking the Arab countries and terrorists, and that China, Russia and France were smart not to send troops to Iraq because they didn't want to provoke anger against themselves, and how the bombings in Britain were a result of Blair's cooperation with Bush in Iraq.

I told her I'm a simple person, and that I'm not really interested in foreign affairs.

I got the bleach too.