I guess I am easily excited, but this morning when I opened my new issue of Wired, guess who I should see smiling up at me from the index but our Markos!

Did I just get put on an NSA or FBI watch list because I looked at a t-shirt website?  In this climate of domestic spying and terrorism paranoia it feels like I easily could have been (if I am not already being watched), especially when part of the purchase price of said shirts goes to one of two revolutionary/terrorist organizations of your choice.

Are you a lover of fighters?  See if I am...

From the BBC:

US officers 'murdered by soldier'

A US soldier serving in Iraq has been charged with murdering two of his own officers whose deaths in an explosion were initially blamed on rebels.

Capt Phillip T Esposito and 1st Lt Louis E Allen were said to have been killed in a mortar attack near the town of Tikrit on 7 June.

However, the military has since charged Sgt Alberto Martinez with the two deaths in his National Guard unit.

The article reports that both men were popular and well liked by the people under their command.  So, could this be a fragging, or simply a case of a soldier who came unhinged?  

My electrician asked me the other day, as he was wiring my bathroom, "so, when do you think we will invade Iran?" The eternal optimist that I am, I answered to the effect that I was hopeful that we wouldn't, since the Dems in Congress (and American public to some extent) have seemed finally to have woken up and are doing a respectable job shuting down the GOP's insane agenda, hence disallowing the Neo-cons their chance.

What I didn't realize is that for the Neo-cons, their chance is here and they are going for it.

Follow me down...