It's not a joke, but it might as well be

If you are a liberal, or even a person who has used your brain in the last year or so, you probably use humor to get yourself through the day. You may ask things like, "Who is Bush going to nominate as intelligence czar--John Negroponte?!

Ha ha. The answer--for real--is "yes." That would be the same John Negroponte who executed the Reagan administration's covert strategy to crush the Sandinista government during the 80's. The same John Negroponte who covered up human rights violations in Honduras. The same Negroponte who lied about the cover-up.

And he will be appointed because the same Senate who approved Alberto Gonzales and John Ashcroft will usher him right in.