As Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard said last week, and I'm paraphrasing, "How many Afrikaaners voted in South Africa's first open elections? And who cares?" The Sunni comprise 20% of the Iraqi population, they were Saddam Hussein's power base, and under his rule Iraq's Shiites and Kurds were slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands. So why is it that both ABC News and NPR seem more concerned with the self-marginalization of the Sunnis than the ascension of the Shiite Arabs and Kurds? It is as if we were concerned how the National Socialists felt about suddenly being replaced as kings of the mountain in post-World War II Germany. The Sunnis were the bad guys! No dictator can remain in power without the tacit support of large numbers of my population; the Sunnis were Saddam's footsoldiers and henchmen. They comprise the majority of the homegrown Iraqi insurgents. If they chose not to vote in last Sunday's elections, they have only themselves to blame, for listening to religious leaders who urged a boycott of the elections to implicitly or explicitly supporting the terorists in their midst. Fortunately for them, they will find that the Shiites and Kurds, once in power, will be far more generous to them than they ever were.

Meine Vater is watching The Matrix Revolutions downstaris. Poor bastard.

Mom is watching The Paper Chase. If she wanted to know how terrible the first year of law school is, I could have just steered her to Skeeter's blog.

The Stars My Destination
I find that my sadness over the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise is being mitigated by two phenomenon: the quality of the current episodes and the impending grandeur otherwise known as Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Last night's episode, "United," was fantastic. Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites united in common cause against the Romulan menace... my Bog, we are so close now to the Federation. The fools at Viacom and UPN have no idea what they are doing. They have taken a multimillion dollar marketing juggernaut and done everything in their power to sabotage and undermine it. All I ask it that their every ambition meet with ruin and their every dream die on the vine.