I am going to commit myself to a total news blackout for the rest of the day today; I'm starting to get ill over all this. There's just a little too much personal experience behind me to detach myself from the events of the day; I can identify a little too closely with the Marines in al-Nasirya, having served with Marines aboard ship and having done some mock-urban assaults at Camp Pendleton a lifetime ago. The scenes on the television have brought back some very, very vivid memories, and I need to turn off the source of the bad stimuli.

It would also help if I didn't have Jimi Hendrix music playing.