corrente

Pounding on all this war news is hard work. In a way, it's just the same as after Bush hung up the Mission Accomplished banner—Republicans put forward an image, and we responded with FACTS: Back then, it was enough to list the casulties to give the lie to the image. But now the stakes are higher, the game is more complicated, and the facts are harder to gather and less easy to fit into the big picture....

Still, since we have both the facts and right on our side, we should win, eh?

And readers! If you live in Philly, one of America's great papers is on the stands now: The Independent. Its site is here, but a web "presence" is so thin compared to the expansive broadsheet—"Too big to read on the subway." Heck, what good are trees if you can't print newspapers with them? Definitely authentic Philly.