I believe ivana_duboise's word for this is "Gyargh!"

[cosmolinguist]

HOW can they be talking about SYRIA? ALREADY!

(I suppose this is what I get for turning on the TV ... but all I wanted was somethig mindless to watch while I ate my lunch! No such luck.)

I saw a map showing how close Baghdad and Damascus are.

I saw something about "chemical weapons in Syria" scrolling along the bottom of the screen.

Is America making a policy of this?! The world is suddenly Bush's Risk board?

At least there were still the normal breed of idiots on C-SPAN; a nurse called to ask if SARS might have anything to do with bio-terrorism.