Someday we will be singing 12/25 instead of 9/11

It is 10:17 right now, and my 10 week old puppy (named Demo, as in -crat) is smacking the doorstop with his paw, frustrated it keeps flinging back, vibrating wildly.

There are a lot of death milestones that are "too high." For example, during the holocaust, an estimated 2,348 Jews died per day for 7 years. In Sudan, an estimated 366 Sudanese are killed per day in the Darfur conflict.

But in America, these numbers are were basically unheard of since 1941, when Japanese military planes bombed Pearl Harbor. That is, until September 11th, 2001, when 2,973 Americans died with the attacks on the World Trade Centers.

That number, today, has been surpassed now by the death toll in Iraq. On December 25th, Christmas day, the amount of Americans killed in the Iraq conflict has reached 2,974 - exactly 1 more than the number killed on 9/11. So for all you neocons who believed this was a war for the good of the country... Well, go screw yourselves.