Shameless Theft
From The Blogfather, but you simply must read this Lileks piece in all its screedy goodness. From the Intro:
Believing in Bushs perfidy gives some people the same comfort and emotional nourishment others get from believing in Jesus. It validates them, cements their view of the world venal, conspiratorial, run by capering chimps who are somehow ten times less intelligent than Usenet posters but somehow able to yank strings on a global scale.
