Republican Fortunes
Last night we ate at our semi-local Pho restaurant. After our big bowl of tasty noodle soup, we were given fortune cookies, standard chinese-restaurant fare, although this was nominally a Vietnamese restaurant.
The one Isaac opened said:
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
It sounded to us like an explanation for the [alleged] election in 2004 and subsequent activities of the current president and his administration.