Happy 4th of July. I plan on the usual barbeque followed by blowing up Chinese chemicals in the sky, but purely for aesthetic reasons. Meanwhile, popular internet sites today (via blogdex) dissent by pointing out some obvious policy mistakes.

First, we have the nerdy weapons of mass destruction 404 error page (page not found). Funny yes, but I liked it better the first time. I was going to make a “your mom cannot be found” page, but it really wouldn’t be that funny, and I wouldn’t want people to think I don’t appreciate every effort to point out that, despite Bush’s speeches about the threat from Iraq, the US was the party that was truly capable of real destruction.

In the number two spot on blogdex today is a cost of war calculation. I like this concept. I remember that the first bombing strike on the Baghdad bunker cost something like $50 million – just to try to kill some people. In the US, you can have people killed for a fraction of that, but that must be a result of our free-market economy. Right?