I hereby pronounce Alberto Gonzales the most frighteningly botlike member of the Bush administration. I have yet to see this man display even a trace of warmth or humanity. As nutty and unsavory as Ashcroft was, at least he seemed somewhat organic. There was some feeling there when he sang that song about the eagles. The only emotion Gonzales seems to convey is prissy umbrage. One imagines he could watch Quaker children being waterboarded in a Syrian sewage canal without pausing from the next bite of his sandwich. He is pure adminidroid; he is the cold, hard face of authoritarianism. But let us not locate this problem in the man. He is merely the extension of a movement. His firing, while necessary, will solve little.