This was posted on that other board, some of you probably read it. It wasn't posted in response to DAL, but DAL is a micro part of the macro world. I thought it was a pretty clean kill and actually not too wordy for what it conveyed. I wish I could write like him:

In a world where we approach an impending Fiscal Cliff, face a Taxamaddon, have unacceptable levels of unemployment, record low levels in the Labor Force Participation Rate, where we continue to set records in the number of Americans who need of food stamps eat in an electronic breadline, have seen our .gov's credit downgraded not just once, but twice, and threatened a third time, see our diplomats killed as the Mideast Islamic world burns, watch as at least one embassy is burning it's classified documents, because in that attack in which the Ambassador to Libya was killed, classified documents were also lost, where the ragtag, illiterate Taliban in Afghanistan, riding around as is their wont in man-dresses and on horseback, as they twirdle "Dirka, Dirka, Dirka", or whatever, can succeed in destroying 6 Harriers, and seriously damaging another 2, as all 8 sat on the ground, along with killing the unit's Squadron Commander--in a loss of 8% of the entire Marine Corps Harrier fleet--effectively making a US combat unit combat ineffective, where Russian and Iranian troops are on the ground in Syria, but that's OK, because Syrian jets are flying over Lebanon, where Japan and China are rattling their sabers at each other--a potential conflict which raises a central question, where Greece is failing, but that's the good news because Spain is failing too, and they're worse than Greece, ......