Kathleen Parker has another, personally interesting, article at The Orlando Sentinel which she has titled “The Bush Isle of Thanatos.”

Definition - Thanatos, The death wish. “Thanatos was the Greek personification of death, which Freud later expanded to describe man’s “death instinct,” or the unconscious wish to abandon life’s struggles and return to a state of quiet repose.”

Kathleen’s point - “How else to explain this administration’s inexorable march toward political death?”

Kathleen’s article actually refers to one specific situation in the news, so I suggest you read her story. Personally, it matters little which topic I relate Thanatos to when it comes to Mr. Bush. They’re all the same.

I find the words Kathleen ends her article with, the most telling;

“In the more likely event that Thanatos truly is at the helm of our ship of state at this titanic moment, we can’t afford to let Bush’s death instinct subsume the national imperative to survive.

Survival now depends on fitter minds.”