It was an interesting coincidence that their announcements hit the news just as the military released Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s confession regarding his role in planning the 9/11 attacks — and a lot more. Of course, we didn’t really need his confession, because his career has been so well documented.

But sure enough, the terrorist’s admissions instantly drew sneers, and not just from the tin-foil hat crowd. Well-placed people acted like Mohammed’s smug confessions meant nothing.

A lot of people have at least a little in common with Sheen and O’Donnell. They just don’t like to think about how much our enemies actually hate us. It’s easier to escape down a rabbit hole to a land where our own government is tricking us into thinking the world is a dangerous place.

This would be the same government that can’t even keep our most secret surveillance programs out of the newspapers.

Who else in the list of people as you listed has had the testicular mass to even identify the tinfoil hat crowd as such, much less confront them so?

That's what's propelling the man's numbers.

To me these early poll results more than anything else suggest that neither Democratic nor Republican partisans are immune to the electability shibboleth. In my view presidential politics would be a lot truer, more interesting, produce better results, and, ultimately, be better for the country if people just voted their hearts and completely dismissed notions of electability.

Well, if voters in all 50 states sign a petition ...

Thus, technically, you or I might be ahead of Mitt Romney and Sam Brownback.

Is this your formal announcement that you're in the race, James? Or have you just formed an exploratory committee?

You have my wholehearted support!