I hope the mental ward in which he resides is taking good care of him and is keeping him on his meds. I do wish however, that they'd keep him away from the computer.
I think this is pretty good work on his part. I just can't help note the coincidence that he appears after a fairly long absence now that we're in the middle of the sub-prime mortgage fiasco (and one "bad" monthly employment figure).
From the moment that America became top nation in the middle of the last century, people have been racing to be contemporary Gibbons, chronicling the decline and fall even as it was supposedly happening. Not the least of the objections to their efforts is that Rome’s domination of the known world lasted about 500 years, and survived more than the odd thrashing or two at the hands of barbarian tribes. In modern America, it’s always the same. Every lost battle or turbulent day on the foreign exchanges and the obituary writers are sharpening their pencils.
A quick history lesson: America is no Rome - The tired analogy of imperial decline and fall.