The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Councillor Terry Kelly: SING IT OUT LOUD – GOD HELP AMERICA.

Councillor Kelly doesn't like America. He's much more fond of Cuba. As a proud member of Scottish Labour, he might actually be to the left of his hero, Fidel Castro. Linking to him is enough, really. His blog is equipped with a handy labour-saving (if not Labour-saving) device, in that his deathless prose is self-fisking. Just follow the link above to his latest post and shudder.

If anyone, anywhere or anything is "dark; sinister; backward", I think it's not, as Tel-boy suggests, America. While I am sure kindly Americans are suitably grateful for his considered diagnosis of their national ills, I suspect the Christians amongst them might gently refer him to Luke 4:23.