....I wouldn't mark the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq (and yes, it WAS/IS an invasion), by deciding to spend my time fishing on the yacht of the Sultan of Oman. I think I'd instead spend time thinking about the nearly 4,000 soldiers who have died since March 2003 and the thousands and thousands of others who've been injured. And salute them....and then go donate some money to the Democratic candidate who will get us the hell OUT of other country's business and tribal snits and politics.

....I'd remind one female candidate for the Presidency that "experience" is as much about where you came from, how and who you were born, how you fit in (or don't fit in with "establishment" folks) and what kind of people you've grown up with as it is about holding privileged positions in the nation's capitol. And I'm guessing the experiences were a whole lot more real on the South Side of Chicago than they were in Evanston, you know?

Lord knows we've had our fill in the last 8 years of privileged, Ivy League kids whose parents made everything easy for them.

I'm saying it here: VOTE FOR OBAMA. There rest of the world is watching, too. That's perhaps the most important thing of all. Well, that, AND ending this stupid war.