John le Carré, thank you for helping shift the wacko conspiratorialist black-helicopter stereotype from the far right to the far left. This column reminds me of the time the Trilateral Commission used the Knights Templars' holy-water-powered time scoop to drop sleeping pills made from a long-lost Atlantean formula into a beer that I was going to drink while it was still in the factory. I slept through a crucial Congressional Politics class the next day in which I was going to reveal the secret of campaign finance reform and its use by Big Oil Companies and the Polish Mafia to threaten heretical Mennonites that had created a genetically engineered hay that made horses as fast as golf carts. But no... it's the United States That Has Gone Mad.