After Russia's invasion of of its former satellite state Georgia last week, John McCain started giving straight talk about the evils of Russian aggression and their "ambitions are to restore the old Russian Empire."

This, of course, is very heartening. Especially coming from a guy who jokes about bombing Iran, tells us we may be in Iraq for 10,000 years and keeps warning us that "there will be other wars."

To be fair, though, the hard line McCain -- who refuses to work with lobbyists -- took on Russia is probably just because his foreign policy adviser is a lobbyist whose two-man firm has been paid nearly a million dollars by the Georgian government in the past couple years.

That said, now that the ceasefire happened, McCain's coming around with a cooler head -- not threatening a return to the Cold War quite so vehemently -- and has returned to his old straight-talking self...

That just made me spit my borscht all over the computer screen. Did you happen to get the money quote?

"In the 21st century, nations don't invade other nations."

No. Never, never.

In the 21st century, nations only "liberate" other nations.

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If you saw The Dark Knight (and, if you haven't, why not?!) and noticed some similarities between the film's titular character -- a psychotic outlaw who dresses in a costume and uses his vast wealth to exact his own form of justice -- and President George W. Bush, then you're not alone.

Lots of right wing pundits feel the exact same way. In fact, here's radio host Glenn Beck on CNN...

But Batman goes into another country and with a C-130 snatches a guy out, and then throws him back here into Gotham. So there's rendition. At one point the Morgan Freeman character says to Batman, wait a minute, hang on, you're eavesdropping on everyone in Gotham? And Batman says, yes, to stop this terrorist.

Morgan Freeman says, I can't be a part of it. And yet Morgan Freeman does become a part of it, and they find the Joker. One of the ways they find the Joker is through eavesdropping. I mean the parallels here of what's going on is to me stunning...

Beck also said that Bush's willingness to "die as the worst president ever because of the war on terror" is "exactly the message that Batman carries."

Well, at least he got the "worst president ever" part right.

Anyway. So, what? Now we're drawing our collective morality from blockbuster movies with fictional characters about completely made-up events instead of from best-selling Bibles with fictional characters about completely made-up events? I suppose it's a fair trade off.

But you know what? I think the conservatives are choosing the wrong movie at which to look for guidance. I think we should be looking for the deep meanings and lessons of Step Brothers.

Yes, what I'm saying is that George Bush should go over to Iran and rub his sweaty balls all over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's drum kit.

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On August 9, 1945, the U.S. B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped an explosive device code-named Fat Man over the Japanese city of Nagasaki, and once it descended to an altitude of approximately 1,800 feet, it was detonated, producing an explosion equal to 21 kilotons of TNT, killing 39,000 people, injuring 25,000 more, and completely demolishing the sea port city. (Thousands more would die in the coming weeks as radiation poisoning showed its effects on the unfortunate Japanese citizens.)

Man, talk about a great day in American history!

At the core of the Fat Man bomb was a small sphere of a rare radioactive, metallic chemical element called plutonium. When explosions within the bomb squashed the small sphere to supercritical density, the plutonium produced a nuclear reaction.

If you could look very, very closely at a plutonium atom, you would see 94 electrons orbiting its nucleus, giving this incredibly patriotic war hero element the atomic number