Today's Question of the Day from Wolf Blitzer is particularly idiotic: "How long do you think it will take coalition forces to take control of Baghdad?"

One, this is a website "poll". Not a scientific poll, where a genuine cross-section of the population is asked the question, and the outcome is a fairly accurate picture of where things stand. But a fucking uncontrolled hey-go-ahead-and-tell-all-your-friends-to-come-over-and-skew-the-results website question which, if we are very lucky, actually requires you to delete the cookie before you go and vote again. Sure, it's been amusing to watch FARK take over some of the Forbes online polls, but I'm still naive enough to think that a purported news organization would have more integrity than this.

Two, if the political and military geniuses who planned this war don't know how long it'll take (and it has become obvious that they don't), then nobody does. And there's no point in asking. There is nothing useful that can be learned from this "poll", except for which faction does a better job of marshalling its forces to click the 'vote' button. Our future: the illusion of participation.