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Bin Laden Wasn't All That Central To The Terrorist Network Any More, But Taking Him Down Created A Kind Of National Catharsis. It's Been A Really, Really Long Time Since We Had Something To Celebrate That Didn't Involve A Sports Team. I'd Rather It Had Been A Non-death-related Occasion, But We'll Take What We Can Get.

I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.

We Always Need To Remember That Behind Almost Every Great Moment In History, There Are Heroic People Doing Really Boring And Frustrating Things For A Prolonged Period Of Time.

I Kind Of Think That If You Show Conspiracy Theorists A Photo Of The Dead Bin Laden They Will Come Up With An Explanation For Why It's Really A Photoshoped Picture Of Bin Laden Asleep. Or His Dead Cousin Fred. Donald Trump Apparently Believes That Bin Laden Is Dead, So That Ought To Be Enough For The Middle East.

If Immigration Reform Passes, It'll Be A Big Victory For Sanity - Nobody Really Believes It's Healthy For A Country To Have Millions And Millions Of Undocumented Noncitizens Living In The Shadows. But It'll Also Be A Sign That The Republican Party Has Gotten Tired Of Letting The Tea Party Push It Around.