I know only fellow-travelers read this blog

But in case it snares a Google-errant, a Republican searching for "All That Arises" on a Vegas crap table or a porn site, do this one thing before you surf back to la la land. Read the last few posts by Riverbend, just so you may hereafter pause when you hear from Bush/Cheney/Powell/Rumsfeld/Rice/Bremer how swimmingly we're reconstructing Iraq.