A Picture on the Theme

Well, two pictures, actually. These pink flamingos roost at the Crane Flat Fire Lookout in Yosemite National Park. Hence the helicopter and mountains in the background.

On Titles

I spent a long time trying to title this blog. Everything gets packed into that URL: are you funny, smart, pretentious, ambitious or ironic? It sets the expectation for what will follow. When I send you an email saying, come read my blog at flamingolawn.blogspot.com, what do you immediately think? Millions of pink flamingos studding a green lawn? What is she thinking?

Just think about how rich the field is for the torture bill the US government just enacted. The media ought to be calling it the torture bill, because that's essentially what it is: legalizing torture so that George Bush can sleep at night knowing that our country has stooped to the ranks of our enemies and allowed barbaric practices to rule our diplomacy. No wonder the world hates us. We've just told them we're going to torture their citizens if they end up held as detainees in the war on terror. Is it any wonder that other countries want to torture Americans? And how different would the public reaction be if the bill were labeled the Torture Bill, instead of the Detainee Bill?