Stories of a short, fat bastard.

I'd never thought if that. It's not that Clinton was right and Bush is wrong! I'd forgotten how much margin for error Clinton had been given.

I notice in news reports that "all" peace protests around the world are really violent, and are reported as such in a "how ironic and hypoctritcal" manner. Peaceful People aren't news. Aside: have you noticed how little NEWS there is now? It's all just stories.

It bothers me greatly that Russian technology is being still being sold to the Iraqi Mob, even as the fighting intensifies. And I won't be surprised if there is a Basra Road-style incident on a non-coalition convoy near the Syrian boarder.

You know, I wonder about these stray bombs. The first one left a fucking huge crater in the reo-concrete, which says to me that it exploded when it penetrated the ground and wasn't a cruise missile. The second one caused even more damage to the shops and people, yet left a pissy little crater about the size we used to make in the dirt of the farm by setting off a bucket of fuel-oil/fertilizer explosive. That says to me that it wasn't so much a stray bomb as a carefully placed bomb that was sitting on the ground when it went off.

Or maybe I'm just thinking the worst of the mob in Bahgdad. Surely they wouldn't bomb their own markets after getting the idea from a genuine accident. (sarcasm alert!)

It's always the markets, isn't it?. You never hear "A stray bomb landed in the river and failed in injure anyone, which was lucky." It's always Crowded Markets no matter what time of day it happens.

If only we had some sort of magic wand to stop it.

den
(liberal in a "the Police are neccessary" way.)