The insulation of America

Mummified man found in front of TV:

"SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Southampton police responding to burst water pipes in a Hampton Bays home found the mummified body of the owner — dead for more than a year — sitting in a chair in front of a television.

The television was still on."

Another reason I am thinking of moving to India.

Operation Iraqi Freedom in Action

The irony is almost overdone. As reported by the Los Angeles Times on the sentence of a U.S. Marine in the intentional killing of an unarmed and innocent Iraqi man, Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamandiya:

"Pennington told Folsom he regretted his actions but that he and other Marines were frustrated by their ill-defined mission in Iraq and the inability to tell friend from foe.

'As callous as it sounds,' he said, every Iraqi was considered 'guilty until proven otherwise.'"