Are Americans & North Koreans Secret Allies After All?

Now that a new poll shows a majority of Americans supporting torture, I will begrudgingly have to admit that the United States of America and North Korea are not as culturally removed from one another as most of us had once thought.  This is embarrassing, shameful even.  But reality so often is. And this brings me to that movie, "The Interview."    Just because a particular ethnic group is not buying tickets to your movie, it doesn't give you the license to make them the butt of your jokes.

Yes, the North Koreans appear to be a criminally absurd bunch.  But now it turns out, so are we.  The dial on my  laugh-o- meter keeps getting stuck though when those jokes roll around to the hummus, pasta sauce and pureed raisins being injected.   You see, that's what happens when we lose our "moral authority," when our former President turns out to have told a bald-faced lie about engaging in torture,  and when the psychopaths who ran the program are appearing on talk shows.  These are people who should long ago have be institutionalized in strait-jackets.  

Who is America to lecture any country about human rights violations?  Maybe the North Koreans can make a comedy about us and distribute it around the world.   At the very least the American taxpayers should be getting a refund in the mail for whatever was spent on the charade of maintaining a State Department Human Rights Office for all these years.