TC the Terrible

By buddy, Freakdaddy doubted my post yesterday that Rosa Parks had ever worked for the NAACP.  Here, from today’s Slate.com article, is the proof:

Parks had served for years as the secretary in the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She and her NAACP boss, E.D. Nixon, had already been discussing a way to protest that most demeaning daily feature of black life: the segregated bus ride to work and home under the watch of the city’s famously abusive bus drivers.

Even I can be right some of the time.

Valuable space in my brain is being wasted by thoughts like these:

• How screwed up is it that whenever I hear Strauss’ “Thus Spake Zarathustra” that I don’t think of a great concert symphony, or the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey; but instead I think of Ric Flair’s ring entrance?
• I don’t care if he did steal Jude Law’s girl friend last summer, the new James Bond is a real pansy. How the hell can we respect a James Bond that is pro-gun control? The casting people have got to be smoking some really, really good dope.
• And a sure sign of the impending Apocalypse. Ashlee Simpson, the terminally untalented and annoying sister of pop star Jessica Simpson, has the No. 1 album this week. That puts her ahead of soul legend Stevie Wonder. She’s also ahead of Nickelback and the Black Eyed Peas. That just shows that in today’s MTV, image is king, ten second sound bite world; talent is no longer a factor.

As I expected, the Washington Post led off today’s news with the magic number 2000. What I did not expect was for them to be as fair about it as they were:

The deaths in Iraq are relatively few compared with other wars in U.S. history, and they pale dramatically in comparison with the losses in the two world wars, when the United States saw a combined total of more than half a million fall. The Iraq death total also falls far short of the worst nine years of the Vietnam War, from 1964 to 1973, when more than 58,000 U.S. troops did not return, an average of more than 6,400 deaths a year.

Those numbers are pretty clear. Folks, it could be a whole lot worse for our troops’ families than it is right now. Our guys over there are doing a great job, one that really matters in the long term picture, and are doing it the right way. We need to back off and give them the time and resources to get the job done right.