CNN reports that Japanese agricultural minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka has committed suicide rather than face the music in the face of a corruption scandal. May I modestly suggest that corrupt, scandal plagued members of the Bush adminstration follow in his footsteps. Karl Rove? Consider leaving the oven on and un-lit. Alberto Gonzales? Consider potato stuck in your car's exhaust pipe. Dick Cheney? Oh definitely razor blades and a tub of warm water.
It's memorial day, do the right thing. Perhaps in memory of the almost 4 thousand Americans whose lives you have wasted and the thousands upon thousands of Iraqis whose lives you have stolen.
Welcome to The Cahokian... A thousand years ago Cahokia — across the Mississippi from what is now St. Louis — was one of the biggest cities in the world. Now it's an empty green spot next to the highway. I'm a middle-aged gay man living in New York City, center of the world, future footnote on somebody's future map. Welcome to the new world.
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