This whole little outrage over Barack Obama bowing to Japan's Emperor Akihito is another one of those "whatever he does is a scandal" phony controversies. Even viewers of Fox News and self-identified Republicans don't think it's inappropriate for our president to do that. Right-wing bloggers called it "treasonous," which to me is one of those frequent (these days) cases of defining an important word down to the point of rendering it meaningless. If you call a respectful greeting to a foreign leader "treason," what word would you use if someone handed that foreign leader our nuclear codes and, say, the actual Liberty Bell?