Since when is it necessary to apologize for telling the truth? The truth is that the vast majority of the neocons who promoted this fantasy adventure are cheerfully offering other peoples' children, mainly poor, rural, and white, to go die for their dreams.

Not only are they not risking their own children, they're not even spending their own money, but financing the invasion on credit that your grandchildren will pay. (Theirs will be too rich to pay taxes.)

Want to see the truth about their commitment to the war on terror and their promotion of the Walt Disney version of democracy? Institute a draft, limit it to the children of Republicans, and see what they say.

The fact is, I would be a bad, unfair juror if I were in the box for Scooter's case, because I am already convinced that anyone for whom Dick Cheney would testify should damned well go to jail.

I'm confident that my assessment is accurate, but because I've made it before I've heard the witnesses and seen the evidence, it's called prejudice.

So far, the debate seems to be limited to two outcomes.

We must either keep on doing what we've already been doing in Iraq for nearly four years, maybe do it a little harder, and expect a different outcome (which was Einstien's definition of insanity), or withdraw and let the house of cards, that we've created from the feverish imaginings of the neocons, the lives of our non-neocon children, and money borrowed back from the Chinese, collapse into the dust of a religious civil war that makes the folks who dug up Cromwell's corpse and decapitate it look civilized by comparison.

Why is there not a third way? It's time for us to go to the U.N. with our hats in our hands, and ask if they will please, pretty please, take responsibility for maintianing the "peace" in Iraq, preferably with dark-complected soldiers in blue uniforms who do not look like Crusaders, and we should gladly pay every penny of the cost. Preferably with tax dollars collected from the neocons.

Last time I looked, and it's been awhile, it seemed that the jury was still out on the cost of corn-based ethanol when measured in gallons of petroleum, and the math seemed to depend on who was doing the calculation and why.

Given that we are sucking all of our rivers and acquifers dry at a rate that alarms those few who bother to pay attention, has anyone calculated the cost of corn-based ethanol in gallons of water?

There is no one so foolish about money as a rich man. This is no surprise. Alcoholics aren't very smart about booze, either.

For the last 5,000 years or so, the Chinese have been calling the rest of us barbarians.

It's time that they stopped.

as liberators.

I move that we send Dick Cheney, joe, and any other intellectual cripple who would believe the Bush administration if they predicted that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning, to go door to door after dark in Baghdad and remind these silly Iraquis how grateful they should be. They should go two by two, unarmed, and expect rose petals.

Do I hear a second?

What? Doesn't everyone read Broadsheet?

After choking on Gordon's article while reading the Times over the net on Sunday morning, I almost wished that I had a subscription that I could cancel with appropriate indignation.

It is impossible for rational people to put faith in anything the current administration tells us. Gordon puts the N.Y.Times in that same category.

is exactly the question, and it doesn't look like we have the answer. We know transgenic corn will escape into the environment, and until we know what's inside Pandora's box, and how to control it once it's out, it behooves us to leave it there. Why should the rest of us be in a rush to save production costs for a few agri giants?

Does anyone seriously believe, at this stage, that corn-based ethanol is a viable fuel solution instead of theater?

Wasn't it Albert Einstein who defined insantiy as doing the same thing and expecting a different result?

Shouldn't there be a mechanism to revoke the voting privileges of anyone who still takes these guys seriously?

said there are no second acts in American lives. Wrong. By my rough count, Al Gore is currently in his fourth act on the national stage - Senator, Veep, Candidate, Crusader - and he's never looked better and hindsight has never been more wistful.

How about we finesse the Black Man without Experience issue with a Gore-Obama ticket, pre-commit Hillary as Secretary of State, and free up Bill to be Secretary General? That should lock in at least 16 years of peace and prosperity that would have the fundamentalists (as Glenn Greenwald has recently demonstrated, they are morally indistinguishable regardless of their religious choice)choking on their comfort.

Hey, it's Friday night.