hey! I didn't know PhotoShop could do tears. How come Locotus' letter didn't get a red star?

Looking at this photo makes me feel ill. And not "ill" like the Beastie Boys. Like, nauseous. I'm going to have to curtail my Salon reading until later this evening when it should be safe again.

Reminds me of the Keep America beautiful ads. Now, if we can send him over to Iraq!

Using the Reuters photograph of the president crying on the cover of your site without any explanation of the context is irresponsible.

Because of the text underneath it, one is led to believe that he is crying in reponse to his Iraq policy. But that is not the case, which you find out if you dig through the associated link.

The picture needs a short caption, at least.

As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a performance! What a performance!"

Was it Karen Hughes or Harriet Miers or one of his other surrogate mothers/enablers blowing the onion juice in his face? Or perhaps Jack Daniels?

His tear is as phony as was Jimmy Swaggert's in his "I have sinned you" performance.

There were no tears for:

- 2,900 dead on 9/11, the threat of which he ignored.

- 200 dead in Bali.

- 200 dead in Madrid.

- 52 dead in London.

- 230,000 killed by the tsunami.

- 1,300 killed by Katrina.

- 600 dead in Lebanon.

- 3,000+ killed and 20,000+ wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The tear can't be for the brave Marine he was supposed to honoring. He has never cared for any of the men and women who have died in his war. He's never attended a funeral. So why now? You don't think this is Shrub's "I feel your pain" moment, is it? Clinton must laughing his ass off. Karl Rove has lost his touch for sure. They spent years cultivating the false image of Shrub as the biggest (how many socks were in that flight suit anyway?), baddest mother-fucker in the world and now they throw it all away trying to show him as sensitive and caring. Yuck! The tough-guy act was phony but palatable. The mushy drunk is just sickening.

Instead, use the John Wayne "lump in the throat, look down at the boots, hard squint, raised forehead" method of feeling pain. Oh, that used by Reagan. OK, how about Jimmy Stewart's shaking head, clenched teeth, angry, clipped voice with a glistening eye but no teary release" method?

There's a great line from a bad TV movie of a generation ago that fits Shrub: "You like to look like a tough guy, but you've got wuss written all over you."

When will people wake up and stop enabling this guy? This poor Marine's family should have refused to take part in this macabre political farce and told the Bushies to ship the Medal of Honor to them. Better to receive it from the UPS or FedEx guy than this cynical phony.

...and more like Foster Brooks. Look at the heavy-lidded red eyes with the dull stare, the broken blood vessels in the cheeks and nose.

I fear that our dry drunk isn't.

I cry a lot. Not from emotional things, but because of allergies. But I've never considered just where the tears come from. So the discussion on Bush's tear sent me a-googlin' and here's what I found at a site called Mother Nature(sorry folks, you're wrong):

Tears are salty, watery secretions that keep two parts of the eye constantly moist. They flow over the cornea--the transparent coating of the eye--and they lubricate the conjunctiva--the membrane covering the white of the eye and lining the inside of the eyelids...Even though one tear is as good as another, they come from different sources. The tears that constantly keep your eyes moist, called the basic tear secretions, are produced on the conjunctiva and also in the eyelids. The tears that you cry over spilled milk, lost loves and squandered savings are reflex tears, generated from what's called a lacrimal gland in the upper, outer corner of your upper eyelid. These tears spring into action when you get something in your eyes as well.

Also, one CAN cry from a single eye. I do it all the time, depending on which one is most affected by my problems.

So, the assertion that THE TEAR is fake because tears only generate from the inner part of the eye by the nose is incorrect. That doesn't mean that Bush's tear is real. Or, if it is, it wasn't shed for the sake of the dead Marine. It was likely shed for himself and the mess he's gotten himself into. Or it could be fake.

Now Daddy Bush....that guy can really cry! It's another lesson the little Shrub should have learned at his knee.

I cry a lot. Not from emotional things, but because of allergies. But I've never considered just where the tears come from. So the discussion on Bush's tear sent me a-googlin' and here's what I found at a site called Mother Nature(sorry folks, you're wrong):

Tears are salty, watery secretions that keep two parts of the eye constantly moist. They flow over the cornea--the transparent coating of the eye--and they lubricate the conjunctiva--the membrane covering the white of the eye and lining the inside of the eyelids...Even though one tear is as good as another, they come from different sources. The tears that constantly keep your eyes moist, called the basic tear secretions, are produced on the conjunctiva and also in the eyelids. The tears that you cry over spilled milk, lost loves and squandered savings are reflex tears, generated from what's called a lacrimal gland in the upper, outer corner of your upper eyelid. These tears spring into action when you get something in your eyes as well.

Also, one CAN cry from a single eye. I do it all the time, depending on which one is most affected by my problems.

So, the assertion that THE TEAR is fake because tears only generate from the inner part of the eye by the nose is incorrect. That doesn't mean that Bush's tear is real. Or, if it is, it wasn't shed for the sake of the dead Marine. It was likely shed for himself and the mess he's gotten himself into. Or it could be fake.

Now Daddy Bush....that guy can really cry! It's another lesson the little Shrub should have learned at his knee.