Monday: Nyet!

• Hell no, he won't go: "Bush won't pull troops out of Iraq" ('I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me.' )
  

  
  

• The Impossible Edit: "Maybe we need Bono and Brad and Angelina there, to focus on the crisis in America and not the crisis in Africa, at least for a few months.

  "It's like a neutron star of inanity, that line; like a neutron star, it collapses into a dot so dense that the editor's pen is forever stuck on the event horizon, unable to move forward and cross it out." -- Lileks
  

• On a Son Joining the Army: "I'm proudest of him for that - for picking his own path and following his own heart, and not the plans his mother(s) and I have made for him as we watched him grow." -- Armed Liberal
  
• Moore's Dystopia: "The apologists of tyranny are again hard at work trying to redeem the one of the last outposts of communist enslavement." -- Dr. Sanity: AN ILLNESS OF THE SOUL
  
• Sick Soul Jon Bon Jovi on Live Earth and the little people: "The event, if presented properly, can be educational for those watching and listening. You know, a series of short films or passionate speeches by those who are knowledgeable can at least educate the masses, so that in their own little way maybe they can do some good in the world." -- Guardian (Emphasis Added)
  
• The Perils of Pauline Pizza Girl: "...who the hell orders pizza in quadrants anyways?" (Craigslist)
  
• If Your World is Ending Due to Local Warming: 23 Ways to Beat the Heat. (Real Simple)
  
• A man who is obviously not going to do the job: "We would have to plant 100,000 trees to offset the effect of Live Earth,"[John Buckley of Carbon Footprint, an organization that helps companies reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, said Saturday], speaking by telephone. But, he added, "if you can reach 2 billion people and raise awareness, that's pretty fantastic." (Washington Post)