Another wonderful example of Metro competence, quality, and capability.
(That, my friends, is called sarcasm.)
20 people were injured, none seriously (miraculously) when an empty train slammed into another train waiting at the Woodley Park station. There’s a lovely photo of the carnage in the Post article.
Interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai was today declared winner of the first direct presidential elections in Afghanistan’s history. Citizens of that county, who lived under hardline Taliban rule for more than a decade, went to the polls on October 9. Official results have been held up while the U.N.-Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body investigated allegations of fraud.
Look, Bush won. It’s not the end of the world. America is not going to come crashing down. We’re not going to get drafted. The nations of the world are not going to stop talking to us. Social Security is not going to disappear. The middle class is not going to get a tax hike. Etc. The New York Times or NPR would give you a more centrist and rational take on this election than most people my age seem to have taken.
There’s a great commentary piece by Michael S. Malone over on ABCNews.com (linked above) about how impossible it is to wage a war without making mistakes. Malone doesn’t talk about whether the war in Iraq was justified (and says he won’t talk about it), but talks instead about the nature of war in general.
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Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
