In a cage match to the death between Germany’s Der Spiegel and Noam Chomsky, who would you root for? Interview with Noam Chomsky: ‘The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System’.

SPIEGEL: Do you prefer the team on the other side: the 72 year old Vietnam veteran McCain and Sarah Palin, former Alaskan beauty queen?

Chomsky: This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars, they would think the country has gone insane.