Friending Mohammed (PBUH)

This is another reason to love Facebook (cause you were looking for one.) Social networking sites are overriding the control of the state in many countries. It has been used to organize protest against some regimes, ex Egypt. And you thought it was only for organizing happy hours and keeping you from working.

So Nice They Named It Twice

A great gallery of photos of New York.

Bring It On

If Mr. Obama extended benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers, he would “provoke a furious grassroots reaction, reinvigorate the conservative coalition and undermine his efforts to portray himself as a moderate on social issues.”Gary Bauer

You wanna see a furious reaction if the president doesn't support benefits?

Thanks, Andrew Sullivan

Confidence

The General Social Survey finds that the only institution that has gained, and not lost the confidence of the American people in the last 35 years is the military.

What price that confidence?

Courtesy of FiveThirtyEight

Greatest Failure of Mankind

On his website, photographer Aaron Huey has posted photos of the funerals of soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, including several shots of the bodies of those soldiers in their caskets.

His point: "War is death. If we are to engage in war then we should have to stare it straight in the face, and call it by its rightful name. I think we need to be reminded as much as possible that real people are in those flag draped-boxes...War is the greatest failure of mankind. When I go to these funerals all I can see is failure. "

Look at the faces of those who pay for that failure. The dead have just become men, just left behind the high school gyms so many of these funerals are held in.