Silflay Hraka

Fish In A Barrel

I blame the media. Without a larger selection of quotes from today’s war rally, I have no idea if these are the stupid anti-war protestors, or the smart ones.

“The Iraqi people are not our enemies — they are our sisters and brothers,” another Howard University student, Caneisha Mills, told the rally.

Either Ms. Mills is unaccustomed to thinking things through, in which case she’s not doing much for the educational reputation of Howard, or she and her siblings spent most of their childhood chained up in a basement. There’s a distressing amount of that about, I’m told. What’s puzzling is why she wishes them to remain there.

First-time demonstrator Patty Crotau, 28, left her home in upstate New York on Friday afternoon and came to Washington by bus. The mother of two said she came because she believes the Bush administration’s current stance is hypocritical.

“We’re keeping everything we have in terms of weapons of mass destruction,” she said. “I would hate to see it come to a point where this might come back to the U.S. and affect my children.”

That bus fare might have been better spent on a newspaper, Patty. You might have seen this little story.

President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting in Moscow May 24, signed a new treaty pledging to reduce and limit the number of strategic nuclear warheads held by their respective countries to between 1,700 and 2,200 and to do so by December 31, 2012.

A newspaper subscription, and perhaps a trip to the library every now and then, and your two children, who are lovely, I am sure, might escape the unhappy fate that has seemingly befallen you.

Now the obvious question, give the paucity of quotes. Is the media right wing, and bent on undermining the anti-war movement, or left wing, and covering for it?

Eating An Animal For PETA Day

Cooked veal saltimbocca with wild rice tonight for dinner. The nutty flavor of the rice was a nice contrast to the saltiness of the prosciutto, but it was the caged misery that really made it flavorful. Diet Tab made an excellent palate cleanser.

Note to PETA: This was the first time that any of us could recall eating veal. The toddler loved it, and as she’s damn picky about her food now, we’ll probably have it again pretty soon.

Fuzzy Logic