I snagged this photo from Tony’s site tonight, but I think it sums up a few of the conversations I had today with a few people:
Portland75K, photo by xxsosaxxAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
That picture is a shot of Barack Obama, one of the major contenders for the US presidency next year, giving a speech to 75,000 people [...]

I was reading a quote by Donald Rumsfeld this morning:

Private media does not get up in the morning and say what can we do to promote the values and ideas that the free Western nations believe in? It gets up in the morning and says they’re going to try to make money by selling whatever [...]

If you were reading the news yesterday, you probably heard of the allegations that Canadians overseas have aided in the torture of Afghan prisoners by handing them over to local authorities and then not following up on their treatment. To quote a few paragraphs from the Globe and Mail:

Critics demanded the resignation of Defense [...]