Army: Troops to Stay in Iraq Until 2010

Four more years of this will add another $300 billion or so to the debt your descendants will have to pay. I don't see how they get kids stupid enough to volunteer for this anymore.

There must be some really desperate young people coming out of high school these days — youngsters for whom death would be a blessing compared to what they are now experiencing. That's the only way it makes sense.

The term "descendants" for those who come after us is very appropriate. If things were getting better, we would call them "ascendants." The use of this term indicates that in our language we recognize that the human condition has been "devolving" rather than "evolving" from whichever day it was "back in the day" when the first human walked the earth.