Stranger things have happened…

…and haven’t I been the self absorbed so-and-so this week! We got more than 4000 American soldiers dead in Iraq (and almost 100 of our brave mercenary troopers!) We got over five years of continuous combat (but really less than five if you start counting since the Presidink said “Mission accomplished!) We got two war mongering candidates stroking each other in the Demomacratic and the Republicant parties (and one guy we’re pinning all our hopes on!) We got an economy collapsing around us (and an international community cheering it on!) We got people like Spitzer who have the goods on the investment bankers (and a Justice Department that had less problem dragging him down than the Iraqi hired claque had dragging that bronze statue of Hussein off of its pedestal!) Strange times…