I got some flack email from a guy I know named Berg in response to my jab at the French. Supposedly the French had “working plumbing while we were still using corn cobs.” I’m not sure how that makes it O.K. for them to protect their huge financial investments in Iraq by threating a veto under the guise of peace, but I’ll leave that to the readers of this journal to decide. By that line of thinking I believe the Greeks had working plumbing prior to the French, so if you are Greek please contact someone from France and let them know who’s the boss.


Did you hear about The Dixie Chicks’ singer Natalie Maines? In London she recently said, ”Just so you know, we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.” How dumb is that? Could you think of a dumber thing to say? She later issued two separate apologies, each one getting more specific but still hedging. Radio stations around the U.S. are banning the Dixie Chicks as a result. Too funny. I don’t really care and will continue to listen to them. Just because one of them is ignorant doesn’t mean they don’t make good music. I mean, come on, look at Michael Jackson for crying out loud.


CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll said 64 percent of Americans favor sending U.S. ground forces to remove Saddam from power — up five percentage points from a similar survey earlier this month. So, even though it feels like there have been bigger and better peace rallies and such, the truth is that support is gaining in favor of the President. Bush is smart for saying we can avoid war by Saddam leaving the country. Why can’t Saddam just pack up his blood money and leave? Can anybody honestly say we shouldn’t ask him to leave and that he deserves to be their leader? He could save thousands of lives by skipping town. Some people think that the citizens in Iraq want Saddam to stay. Did you hear there were huge peace rallies in Iraq? Guess who PAID people to attend them? Saddam’s son. Duh. Don’t believe the hype.


Have you seen any of the interviews MTV has been holding with people on the street about the war? It’s amazing how vacuous a lot of them are as they stake their turf on how they’re anti-war and ”would never want to be in a war cuz there aren’t milkshakes and quarter pounders with cheese if you are in a war and you could die from being shot in the buttocks and I sure don’t want to die in a war, like, omigod, is this going to be on MTV? Oh, wow! That is sooo cool! Can I say hi to the Real World cast?”