by Denise [courtesy of Blog for America]

In honor of Earth Month, join me in the Nature Conservancy's effort to plant one billion trees to restore the South American rainforest. 

by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

Pasquino is a longtime progressive activist and artist:

War is cruel to the people who love it. Do you remember being in love after the other person has fallen out of love?  It's not just a teenage thing.

Neo-Conservatives love War that way.  Even after it's gone bad, they love it.  They think about what might have been, if only...

They miss War when they can't spend time with it.  If it went away they'd want to die.  But they can't die because they don't actually fight wars, they only start them and think about them.

They think about War obsessively, wondering what they did that made the war go the way it's gone, but usually persuading themselves that it wasn't anything THEY did, it was somebody else who screwed it up.  It wasn't their own lack of forethought, or their incompetence, or their weird belief that everybody thinks exactly the way they do that made such a mess of things.  It wasn't the lives they destroyed or the fact that they enriched themselves. No, the fault belongs elsewhere.  They were tricked or betrayed.  They love War, so War must love them back.  So why is it treating them this way?