Random, but damning, list of who did and did not serve in the US armed forces. I don't know 100% if it's true, but obviously it's easily verifiable (not by me).

For the record: I do not think that failing to serve is in and of itself dishonorable. But I do think that those who disdain others' service, or who advocate war and militarism without being willing to do the grunt work, ought to be held to account, ya dig?

What the Kerry campaign needs is an ad of someone reading this list out loud. I volunteer.

This, on the other hand, is just pure mean-spirited snark, the more so as it invites us to feel political schadenfreude over geniune tragedy. But I can't help posting it anyway, because it made me laugh.

In other news, tonight I'm gonna see if I can install blogrolling without screwing everything up. So if the site is all wonky or not loading for a while, bear with me.