"You know it when you see it," Justice William Brennan is credited with saying about obscenity.
What's going on in Iraq, other than the killing, day in and day out? The U.S. embassy is taking shape at a cost of almost 600,000,000 American dollars, which, without re-building what W decimated with his "shock and awe" campaign, is obscene.
The solution is rather simple. Congress need not authorize the funds to continue the war in Iraq or the construction of the modern Xanadu.
Isn't anyone else embarrassed?
Posted by Bill at May 4, 2006 11:54 AMWe get upset about people who aren't wearing any clothes, but we are silent when we see people who aren't wearing any skin or any muscles because they've been raped by a bomb.
Posted by: Joel Sax at May 4, 2006 05:01 PMThere you are!
$600,000,000 - to continue a trend of using initials WTF?
HCBTCIGTHIAH
(Holy cow, Batman, the country is going to hell in a handbag)
Carpetbag more likely.
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at May 5, 2006 10:49 AMmeanwhile, rampant corruption and fraud are stagnating the gulf rebuilding efforts, and our schools are cheating to meet federal education standards, and we're cutting the budget for a telescope that will identify black holes. Who needs a telescope to identify a black hole, when the most dangerous one is at 1500 PA Ave? And who needs schools when facts are written by winners and winners are out winning, not wasting time on books written by losers? and why rebuild our country, when we're so busy tearing down other countries?
Embarassed is just the tip of the iceberg. But look fast because those bergs are going to the way of the Dodo.
Posted by: dan at May 5, 2006 01:18 PM