Grinding an Axis

It's Banality Monday and time to ease ourselves back into the work week, so step into the time machine, circa February 2002 to remember the world's reaction to the Axis of evil. . .at least as Andrew Marlatt remembered. The article opens thus:

Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China and Syria today announced they had formed the Axis of Just as Evil, which they said would be "way eviler" than the Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of inhis State of the Union address.