U.S. Government Takes Nelson Mandela off the "Terror-Watch List"

Now after all these years we can finally rest assured that Nelson Mandela is not a ter'ist.

"Today the United States moved closer at last to removing the great shame of dishonouring this great leader by including him on our government's terror watch list," Senator John Kerry said.

A blind groundhog will find an acorn every now and then, and every now and then this political system does something marginally decent. Hell, we cheerfully cede that beautiful Americans are everywhere, and for that matter that even a plastic bag floating in the wind, inviting you to play, is so beautiful one almost can't take it (you love him. you want to have ten thousand of his babies). &c.

But for God's sake. Reagan put him on the list more than twenty-five years ago. Really. You almost have to be a polyanna, not to be totally disgusted by our politics.