Living in Bush's America Can Make Us All Feel Like a Part of the Ill-Fated Donner Party

Uh... well, yes, I think this is true.

But here's another truth, tendered up by Wilson's Blogmanac, on this anniversary of the first, pre-Bushian Donner Party:

1846 The families of James F Reed and George and Jacob Donner, 31 people in nine wagons, left Springfield, Illinois. It was the commencement of the Donner Party, the most famous group of American emigrants ever to attempt the cross-country wagon journey to California.

Almost ninety wagon train emigrants were unable to cross the Sierra Nevada before winter, and almost one-half starved to death.

Cannibalism has been suspected ...