Sheesh! And I thought NYC was expensive! Though the ride from central Baghdad to the airport is only 6 miles long, it's so riddled with fatal booby traps that Iraqi cabbies can charge that much for the short trip, CNN recently reported. Wow. That's how safe "coalition" forces have made Iraq. American troops and Iraqis are still dying left and right, and recent findings by a presidential commission show the reason that they are there is "dead wrong." I guess with God on his side, the president need not take into account his own fucking commission's findings!

I grew up in the 70's, where a stock character on TV and film was the disgruntled Vietnam vet. Typically, the disillusioned, war-scarred vet has snapped, and is discovered to be the perpetrator of some hideous crime. Was no one else watching these shows? Did it not register with any ... Read More