It's going to be a stellar day. Not.

It's 85. At 9:00 am.

AS I was going out the door to take James to church -- he needs to be there early because of the band -- I tripped on the sidewalk and fell face first into the dirt. I yelled (loudly, unfortunately), and the kids came out to help.

I twisted my knee. Deciding that discretion was the better part of valor -- or something like that -- I have punted church and am icing my knee in the hope it will be better later, since cyan_blue and tenacious_snail were going to take the kids away for the afternoon. I am not particularly sanguine about this working, since I can already feel it swelling, in spite of the ice.

Damn.

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Alan Derswhowitz justifies the death of civilians -- because they are "complicit."

There are a lot of people who believe just like Dershowitz. Many of them in high places -- how else to explain the U.S. reluctance to exercise any persuasion to reign in Israel?

Our nation has blood on its hands. In Iraq, and now, because of our unqualified support of Israel, whatever it does, in Lebanon.

May God have mercy on our souls.