If there is a spike in IEDs this week, well, you know who to blame.  Nationals fans!

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There’s been a lot of grousing on [...]

…the war goes on and on and on…
Sometime last week we hit the 5th anniversary of our Glorious Experiment in Iraq. It wasn’t mentioned here, but not because we forgot. We were simply too bitter, too weary, to make any sort of fuss.
On Easter Sunday, we reached a new milestone: 4,000 US [...]

SANDOW BIRK’S “THE LIBERATION OF BAGHDAD”
According to the LA Times, a mural by Long Beach artist Sandow Birk (who we’ve written about here, here and here) has apparently rankled more than a few residents of Boyle Heights. The LAPD-commissioned mural was created for the department’s Hollenbeck station but has yet to be installed because of [...]

Artist Sandow Birk will autograph the book based on his latest show, “The Depravities of War”
The size changes but Sandow Birk’s nightmarish Iraq war vision, “The Depravities of War,” is still gripping. Even writ small, in a book at a book signing Saturday at DDR Projects.
How could it not be? It’s our story even if [...]

This Week: Dean Singleton, Echo Chambers and Sex Offenders
“The prosecution wants a win, the public defender wants an easy out, and the judge wants a clear calendar without the hassles of trial.”
Phil on “IT’S A DELICATE SITUATION: PART II”
“I can believe Dean loves newspapers…..in the same way that a pimp loves his whores.”
W3 on “CITY [...]

We don’t reprint press releases—kind of makes us redundant—but this one from Bob Koehler of the Cypress Church Patriots Ministry is worth reading, both for the name of the group in the kitchen of a church fundraiser (Knights of the Holy Grill), and for the message a Marine officer delivered at that fundraiser Friday: “We [...]

We’ve been told that yes, Iraq is a mixed bag but we’re finally making some progress. Well guess what.
The war has come up in debates, but in a rather perfunctory way: so far, it’s been anything but the defining issue of the campaign season. I am the millionth person to make this [...]

Suicide rates go up 20%, while attempted suicide/self-injury rates jump sixfold

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But you knew that.
The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit center for investigative journalism, finds that in the two years after 9/11, the Bush administration made at least 935 false statements to justify military action.

Neocons like to roll their eyes and claim, in exhausted, put-upon voices, that “everyone thought that Iraq had weapons of mass [...]

Hey, that thing called “diplomacy” actually works!
Choosing his words with customary care, Bush recently mentioned Iran and WW III in the same sentence. Neocons have decided that a third front (Iran) will ensure victory on the first two (Afghanistan and Iraq), and have appalled the world by recommending immediate bombing of Iranian nuclear sites. [...]