NO LONGER A MINOR ANNOYANCE

This Toles "cartoon" was published in the Washington Post on February 7. Frankly I'm getting a little disgusted with the liberal meme that if you're a "Rethuglican" you must be a fundamentalist anti-abortion homophobe.

Perhaps it's time to start a counter-meme that if you're a "Dimocrat" you must be an arrogant, self-centered, vulgar, sex-crazed pedophile.

I'd suggest that it's time for a little respect, but that's probably asking a bit too much of Toles and those of his ilk.

BAGHDAD AT DAWN

Baghdad at dawn. This photo was taken in October as I walked to work. It seems appropriate since the early indications (not from the MSM, of course) are that the 'surge' just may be beginning to work. Let's hope so -- God knows the Iraqis deserve more from the U.S. than cut-and-run.