You wouldn't want the children to grow to become "military-age males", now would you?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

to eating babies.

I've reached a 'But why is anyone surprised?' point on the outrageometer.

As long as Bush is in charge, the death, the torture, the rage, the grief, the institutionalised lies, the formal support from on high for abuse and hatred, and the demonic disregard for sanity, dignity and compassion - they're all going to continue. One man's neurotic self-loathing has become a planet-wide emotional illness.

The only positive symptom is that even with the Right Wing Noise Machine still yelling in everyone's ear in the US, there are belated signs of sentience and sanity over there.

I just hope it's not too late.

I sit here, watch these pictures and don't know what to say. But I know I want to say something. Something that matters, something that will make us all think that we can change it...

Alas, my 23-year old mind cannot give a birth to any idea besides the understanding of hopelessness...

On the other hand, I believe I've read enough books about manipulation of media. Even the pictures can lie sometimes, if taken out of context, or presented in a different context.

"Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think." - BUDDHA