"I am a retired architect who at 72 is up to his eyeballs in fighting American fascism," says the voice on the answering machine. "I've been in a state of shock and semi-coma since November 2000, when five uninvestigated crooks on the Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida where I think Gore won and put the most incompetent, wrong-winged know-nothing schmuck in the White House that I have ever seen in my entire life. Even for America, this act of fascism was incredible.

"Of course," he continues, "you know as well as I do that the economy is a wreck, he is destroying the environment, he took $179 billion out of environmental legislation the first month he was in office then he proceeded to do all kinds of things like coming out against affirmative action. This guy is a dick-brained fascist moron from Texas who should be sent back down to Texas."

OK.

But then the architect takes a dark turn.

"Tell me if you know anything that I don't know about what the hell in God's name we can do to stop this son of a bitch," he says. "I have been thinking about getting a gun, going down there and killing him and saying I've done this on behalf of the American people and I am doing it in self-defense and in their defense. That's it, Bush. Pop pop, one for him, one for Cheney."

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