Why We Fight...

This is a great documentary that was online for quite a while and only shown in Britain. It is now opening in LA and NY, and I reccomend anyone who is in either of those two cities to go see it.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. [...] Is there no other way the world may live?"~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oh, and since I'm onto politics...there is a great info-graphic in the NYT today about the Supreme Courts decision about Ashcroft and the assisted suicide thing. I don't think anything I read really understood the legal aspect of the decision and couched it instead in terms of "for" or "against" euthenasia...which is a misnomer at best. Either way, I liked the graphic: