the world is turning to shit

Remember the illegal wiretap thing? Well the official investigation has been halted. By Bush. Apparently presidents have the power to do this, but for 31 years none of them has stopped an investigation in this way. So, unless congress starts asking serious questions, he'll get away with breaking the law. US law, that is; he's already got away with breaking international law, as we all know.

Israel's war is rumbling along nicely; no sign of either side running out of civilian corpses to hold up and use to justify creating more corpses. Saw a charming photo of Israeli children being urged to write messages ("with love from Israel") on bombs about to be used to kill Lebanese children. I'd have thought that the human thing to do would be to leave the kids out of it, but there is no humanity in this situation I suppose. The sensible thing would be for Hizbollah to give up the soldiers it kidnapped, therefore robbing Israel of their main excuse for starting an open war. But they won't. They have as little regard for human life as the Israeli leadership.

In Iraq, Baghdad has descended into anarchy with everyone killing everyone else for a variety of insane reasons.

And so on.