The official number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq recently topped 3600, with total casualties (dead or injured) exceeding 30,000. So-called "collateral damage" has also killed more than 70,000 innocent Iraqis, or about twenty times the number of Americans killed. If we apply this same 20x factor to total U.S. casualties, then we would…
Another headline, another senseless tragedy. During a week full of them, this one hardly caused a blip on my radar, except that it happened here. First I read that a group of teens forced a boy to watch his mother repeatedly raped, then have sex with her himself at gunpoint.…
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Now it's official. We don't have to try any more. All we need to do is proclaim what we all know in our hearts. This is a reissue of an Onion story from 1999, even more appropriate in 2007.
Long before political Bush-bashing became popular, or even widely accepted, critics still jabbed him repeatedly for his speech. Books of "Bushisms", videos of Bush's misspeakings spliced together, and comedic reproductions of the man's halting, confused language have always dominated the pop culture reception of the President. I use the word…