There is something not just ridiculous but unbecoming about a hyperpower 300 million strong whose elites -- from the deranged former vice president down -- want the outcome of a war, and the fate of a nation, to hinge on one freaky jailhouse; elites who are willing to pay any price, bear any burden, as long as it's pain-free, squeaky clean and over in a week. The sheer silliness dishonors the memory of all those we're supposed to be remembering this Memorial Day.---Mark Steyn

Now it's early September, 1850+ caches. I must quit obsessing over this. we're only adding a few for the next week, what with a possible trip to Junction City, and then Vince and Eric's visit.

We won three games at bowling, but not for anything I did... I had 111, 132, 145.

Glenn quotes The Washington Post: (registration required, but go to bugmenot.com)

Although Bush never saw combat and Kerry is a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, many in the Rolling Thunder crowd demonstrated little affection for their brother-in-arms. As they rolled across the Memorial Bridge, around the Lincoln Memorial and down Constitution Avenue, bikers displayed signs reading "Stop Kerry" and "Vietnam Vets against Kerry."
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Bob Nowak, 52, a retired Navy man from Aroda, Va., who did two tours in Vietnam, said veterans such as himself despise Kerry for his decision to protest the war in the early 1970s.

Nowak remembers returning from Vietnam in 1973 aboard an aircraft carrier loaded with thousands of sailors in their dress whites. "As we passed under the Golden Gate Bridge, there were people waiting for us. And they threw garbage on us," Nowak recalled. "That was about the time Kerry was throwing his [ribbons] away. It's kind of hard to forget either of them."

Archibald Cox and Roe v. Wade.

The Kerry Spot.

William Safire.

Sudan. And yet, it's on the Human Rights commission. I'm getting more anti-UN every day.

Lileks was good, but I don't think he archived this one: "What did YOU do today for freedom?"

So Bush "fashions" himself a war president. Newsflash to Reuters -- we are at war and he is the president! I guess if Reuters was fair and balanced, then I would be able to check back in the archives and find this sentence in a story about Clinton on Memorial Day in 1996. "Clinton, who avoided combat in Vietnam by dodging the draft, has fashioned himself as a Commander-in-Chief for his re-election campaign against Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, a decorated WWII veteran who still bears the scars and is partially disabled from wounds suffered in combat." I won't even bother checking; it isn't there. If they were really fair they would have described the contempt about 90 percent of those in the military had for President Clinton, which was easy to see in the difference between the reaction he got from any military crowd and the reactions Bob Dole received. Many in the media must think that if they don't tell us about it, we won't know it happened. That may have been true before the internet, but those days are no more.

Howard Veit, suppose you didn't know what winning looked like.

The truth about Fallujah. We'll see.