Ok, I'm going to get a little political here. Like a friend of mine once said, "It's not that I'm pro-American or anti-American...it's that I love human life and hate all war."

I heard on NPR today that Ariel Sharron had a major stroke and is in critical condition. They talked about how his popularity level is at an all-time high, mainly due to the fact that he peacefully gave the Gaza Strip back to the Palestinians. I thought this made an interesting comparison with our country's leader. On the one hand you have Sharron, whose popularity is unprecidented in modern Israeli history due to nonviolent peacemaking, and on the other you have George Bush, who has aggressively attacked (and admitted his mistakes and blunders with the attacks) others, and has a popularity at an all-time low.

I think, amongst dozens of other things, this shows us simply that people love peace over war, and we're even seeing it in the political and secular spheres.

I also heard that six more American Marines were killed today. To be honest, I hate that. I hate that humans, no matter which nationality they belong to, are dying at the hands of other humans. But what struck my attention in this news brief and really shook the (sadly too often) numb feeling I had, was that they quickly mentioned the deaths of 30 Iraqis. Several minutes spent talking for six Americans; one sentence for 30 Iraqis. Without getting too longwinded, I think people can draw their own conclusions here. National pride is more important than human life...