You know, I was sitting here watching the Oscars and sort of paying attention, a good bit of the time anyway and they announced something like here's the third and final Oscar nominated song and music starts playing and it was hip hop and I let it play, maybe even turned it up a little, and I paid little attention at first, I was thinking about Aikido actually, more on that later I think, and sort of got gradually ensnared by the music and realized it was more than just a little rap about bitches and hos and such and had a girl singing above all the hiphoppin rappin goin on and I started listening to her lyrics and I heard "it's hard out here for a pimp" and got myself off on a tangent thinking about rap lyrics and comparing them to the Beatles for instance and how completely opposite they are and yet sometimes not so opposite and the song ended and then they read off the nominees for Best Song (I think), and one of them was these dudes (and this chick) and there only was three nominees and I remember thinking that they were by far the best (I thought) but there's no way the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is going to vote these cats an Oscar and she announces them as the winner (actually, what she does is she starts singing It's Hard Out Here...) so I was wrong and then I realized it was Queen Latifah presenting and I guess it all fits.

"It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp" just won an Oscar for, I believe, Best Song. The Academy goes Ghetto. More to come.

Just seeing if this works, I am.

If it does, cool.

If not, oh well

It didn't

P: What are you doing?

C: Eating breakfast.

P: We're leaving for church in five minutes.

C: I'll be ready.

P: You're supposed to be fasting for an hour.

C: That's before communion.

P: It's probably less than an hour til communion.

C; So I won't take communion.

P: Then you might as well not even go.

C: So I won't go.

P: You have to go.

What we should do about Iraq. In a word: nothing.

Nothing?

Nothing.

What does that mean?

The show is about nothing.

Jerry: Well, it's not about nothing.

George: No, it's about nothing.

Jerry: Well, maybe in philosophy. But even nothing is something.

Sorry, sidetracked. Seriously though, nothing is what we do. It's what we should have been doing right along. Even if we are to grant that there was justification for this "war" (invasion) in the first place, which I do not, but just suppose, what are we now trying to accomplish? Bring stability? Hah!!! Some sort of stability will eventually be achieved, but only after we leave.

Let's go over our reasons for being there. Our stated reasons were: 1) to find and remove the WMDs. This is now moot so 2) was (after 1 proved moot) remove Saddam Hussein, a ruthless evil bastard. Done. Let's see, what else? Set up their government for them? Is that a stated objective? I hope not. Bring stability? Is that a stated objective? Again, I hope not. It's not in our power and it's NOT UP TO US! It is (at least) time to get the hell out of there. A full blown civil war may be be what happens next. I suppose we could stay for that but I think we're not invited (like we ever were).

Out, OUT I say! And say we're sorry as we go.