The most pressing issue in American politics today can be summed up, quite simply, as this: "Macaca." What does it mean?
The answer lies somewhere in the well-coiffed recesses of Sen. George Allen's (R-VA) mind. Allen uttered the alien epithet repeatedly to a young Indian-American man at one of his campaign appearances. This made the collective US political press drop its stories on Iraq, Lebanon, Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Hamas, Hezbollah, and healthcare to pursue the "Macaca" angle with the vigor of ...