The American Experiment lasted 233 years, 6 months, and 18 days. It was an interesting experiment, but it's over now. I wonder what historians will call the new form of government instituted by the Supreme Court on January 21. (They might reasonably date it to the 2000 Gore decision, instead.) It strongly resembles Fascism, but without the millennial ideology it carried last time around. It's hard to believe Europe will be able to, um, save us the way we (and Russia) did them, then.