Outrage Overload

I’ve been steadfastly avoiding making entries about politics, despite Mark’s frequent forays into that realm on this blog, primarily because for about the last year, this has described me pretty well.
But this leaves me speechless.
Six hundred Americans have died. For the entire month of April last year, my mother watched the casualty reports every night in fear that the child of a man who works for her would show up. (He was in some of the heaviest fighting in central Iraq) The reasons proffered for that war have become more and more obviously bogus in the meantime, and our President, the man who sent our servicemen and women off to die, and they continue to die each passing week, decided it would be appropriate to joke about how much of a sham his justifications have been.
Yes, it’s been a few days since it happened, but I’ve been getting more and more disgusted about it each day.
And just to not end on that note, here’s a plug for an organization I used to work for way back in 1986-7. They’re still around, and doing much to help people with disabilities (even if their own webpage isn’t).