It’s one thing to support or oppose the war. It’s another thing entirely to have a government employee violate your privacy rights. According to a Seattle Times story, a TSA employee has done just that.

Seth Goldberg says that when he opened his suitcase in San Diego after a flight from Seattle this month, the two "No Iraq War" signs he'd picked up at the Pike Place Market were still nestled among his clothes.

But there was a third sign, he said, that shocked him. Tucked in his luggage was a card from the Transportation Security Administration notifying him that his bags had been opened and inspected at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Handwritten on the side of the card was a note, "Don't appreciate your anti-American attitude!"

I am chilled to the bone to think that anyone’s rights could be so egregiously laid aside. There should be a full investigation, including taking handwriting samples of anyone who could have come into contact with Mr. Goldberg’s luggage. Whoever is responsible should be fired immediately.

Perry has an interesting thought over in his blog.

I think the war might already be over, really having ended the night it began. With that initial "target of opportunity" strike in Baghdad we may very well have be-headed the Iraqi regime; possibly killing or wounding Saddam and/or his sons.

Those wacky Canadians™ just won’t stop. The NY Times reported on Canadian reaction to the start of the war.

Sentiment ran generally high against the United States. Fans in Montreal booed loudly tonight when "The Star Spangled Banner" was sung before the Canadiens' game against the New York Islanders.

Wouldn’t it be great if the Islanders won the Stanley Cup this year?

Joe Wantz over at UMaryland's Diamondback had this to say about the current celebrity penchant for excercising their free speech.

In America, we want our celebrities to do a lot - make exciting movies, write outstanding music and apparently determine U.S. foreign policy. Or, at least Vinnie Bevivino thinks they should.

Lee over at Right Thinking has this post about backlash over a politically incorrect cartoon regarding the useful fool Rachel Corrie. For those who haven't heard, she was killed by falling down in front of a bulldozer set to demolish the house of a suspected Palestinian terrorist. It seems the left has no sense of humor when the joke's on them.

Those wacky Canadians are at it again. According to The Globe and Mail,

The U.S.-led coalition's war against Iraq is illegal, say dozens of Canadian law professors and experts in international law, including a member of the Liberal government caucus.

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I thought the United States stood alone in the world! I thought we were going into this war without friends! Apparently not!

The threat posed by the North Korea crisis and the expected loyalty of allies prompted the governments of Japan and South Korea to support the U.S. attack on Iraq despite public opposition, leaders in those two countries said today.

I know this guy named Perry. He’s a really funny man

So they keep telling me "War is not the answer". "War is never the answer!" they say.

Check out his site for a great laugh.

It's about time I started blogging about other bloggers blogs.

And I must say that I am so very glad it's finally happening. I read the "Indict" article (too lazy to find the link) that described some of the torture Saddam's thugs have inflicted upon civilians. You know, stuff about hanging women by their feet for the duration of their menstrual periods, or hanging them by their hair and making their children watch them die that way. And surely you've all heard about the plastic shredder so cleverly used by Saddam to shred actual people, sometimes feet first so that suffering would be enthusiastically maximized.

Last week, I dug out a book I bought a while back, written by a British journalist who spent a few months in Iraq just after the liberation of Kuwait, which also talks in painful detail about the living conditions of the average Iraqi citizen. There's a story about a young woman who'd been gang raped four different times by various government men.

Of course, these atrocities are irrelevant. It’s all about the oooiiilll!™

The attack has begun. Godspeed to all our troops, and may you all come home safely.

So Apple has done the unthinkable. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Yeah, it'll bring some credibility to the company, but did it have to be Algore? Why not a conservative businessman, like Steve Forbes?

One of my jobs involves activating software for Microsoft. Sometimes, the stupidity of the people I have to deal with just makes me want to scream. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE DAMN ACTIVATION WIZARD, WHY DON'T YOU! And when I ask you a question, don't give me your frickin' life story! I DON'T CARE! Just answer the questions I ask, not the ones you think I ask.