Drive by posting

Just 2 things today-

1. A strip I'm sure someone's being sued over, but it's a superb use of an old meme, so here ya go [from fark, natch]:

2. Bush vetoes Stem cell research.

Um...what was the point? He said he'd veto it, everyone knew he was going to, and yet it played through the process like it was to be some Hail Mary pass that could make it. Though a great political move by Dems (how often can you say that, huh?), I reckon. We saw both parties in support of it, and the polls- those bastions of perfect inaccuracies- show the 'American People' are in support of it to the tune of 70%.

It was one thing when the GOP wasn't playing to the Democrats, that's expected- now we get GOP disenfranchisement within its ranks. Add to that general unease at the loss of hawkishness and it hopefully means November will be a good month.

It's a bit backwards, isn't it...the people we probably should be at war with we're frenetically diplomatic to. Then those where diplomacy just might have been effective with, we introduce a civil war to.

Okay I lied- Three things-

3. The wailing woman in the head scarf.

Every morning. During the day when I steal a moment at lunch to check a news feed. After work. On weekends. Every hour, there is a new picture of her. Sometimes she is in Iraq, lately she makes it to Lebanon, or Israel. Sometimes she is old, but more often quite young. She has lost her brother. Her husband. Her parents. Worst of all, her sons and daughters. Her pain bleeds through the screen and dampens your cheeks.

I long for the day when the woman can be seen smiling. I fear that hour is many, many years away, and we'll be so used to her tears we will no longer see her.

Comments

[marc]

hi
(dropping this comment in cos I don't see a mail link anywhere)

Would you mind truncating the address link in your blogroll for enthusiasm to the one in the URL field here?

I've migrated the blog recently to WrodPress, and the old (.html) address doesn't work anymore.

Thanks, marc

[Coeus]

I'm glad to see you posting again.