All these stories about bullies makes me realize something - why I'm so angry at the Bush Administration.

Certainly there are plenty of reasons for us to be angry at Bush, Cheney, Rove, Gonzales and the rest of them. They lied to us literally thousands of times now over six years, they cheated their way into power by fixing elections in Ohio and Florida, they started two wars that have killed hundreds of thousands of people, they destroyed our country's credibility and prestige across the world, they destroyed our civil liberties, they ordered torture, indefinite detention and extraordinary rendition, and have nothing but contempt for democratic governance.

But the reason why I hate them the most? They're bullies. Fundamentally, shaking a younger, smaller kid down for his lunch money and sending hundreds of thousands of troops in to slaughter and kill for oil are the same acts. They commit these acts with the same smirks, the same sneers and the same looks of contempt that I saw in the faces of those bullies that tormented me when I was little.

So for me, yes, it is personal. My anger and hatred for those sons of bitches burns with white-hot intensity at the core of my being.