Will Collier, of Vodkapundit, writes about John Kerry’s solicitation of information from families that have suffered “hardships” because of their relatives who are serving in Iraq:

He is proud to serve, and we are proud beyond words of him and his sacrifices. And we are ashamed that you, as a US Senator and would-be president (that’ll be the day), would be soliciting military families to give you sound bites for your personal political gain.

Shame on you, you pathetic vulture. Release your Form 180.

One of my cousins works a couple of blocks from me, and every once in a while, we have lunch together. If we walk to the mall on a Friday, there are usually protesters outside, holding up a set of signs that list those soldiers who’ve died in the “invasion and occupation” of Iraq. Those signs drive me mad.

My cousin either doesn’t get it, or his tolerance for that kind of disrespect is much higher than mine. Every time I see these people, I tell myself that I’m going to go home and look for stories of people who died heroically in Iraq, knowing that they were fighting for the liberation of the Iraqi people and for the safety of the American people they’d sworn to protect. I want to find one of those names on those signs, and I want to demand that those protesters explain how they can use the noble death of a hero to argue against he cause he willingly risked (and tragically lost) his life for.

To my shame, I haven’t yet done that. I can’t decide if that’s because I’ve grown weary of trying to use facts to penetrate the skulls of the chronically stupid, or if it’s because I’m afraid of the confrontation that would ensue. Tragically, I fear it may be the latter.

Every Wednesday, I tell myself that I’m going to write up a review for the comics I picked up that day. Every Wednesday, I come home, read my comics and e-mail, and play World of Warcraft, and completely forget about writing comic reviews. I tell you this so that no one expects this to be a regular feature here at One Stack Mind. It could be, but my track record on the comic reviews seems to be against it.

Since my reviews will, undoubtedly, contain spoilers, I’m putting them “below the fold”, in the extended entry. I’ll put the score (on a scale of 1-10) in the list of comics for the week, so if you’re really uptight about spoilers, you may just want to read that and then move on.

(Those issues without links on the list don’t have full reviews; you’ll have to settle for just the score. Sorry; I didn’t have that much to say about those two books, despite enjoying them.)
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