I've got real-world tasks to attend to -- I'll be back with you when sometime later today. Meanwhile, go check out the Rational Enquirer. I know my recommendations of this site are getting a bit excessive, but please go there anyway. It's like stepping into a parallel universe -- or, rather, it gves you the sense that the world you see in most of the U.S. media, the one where "everything's just about back to normal" in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the parallel universe.