Quick Hits

• It's pretty well known that the Prez doesn't go out of his way to acknowledge and meet with living veterans, but now he's starting to avoid dead ones, as well. Yeah, I know that he spent Veterans Day in Texas, and he went to an American Legion post for a ceremony honoring a few soldiers who died in Iraq, but it rubs me the wrong way that he left the high-profile appearance at Arlington Cemetery for Dick Cheney. At other times I might not feel so strongly, but we're in the middle of a war that, no matter what the administration might claim, cannot be justified. The Prez is asking troops to die for a misbegotten adventure that just leaves them trapped in a crossfire of an alienating civil war halfway around the world from their country. He hasn't yet gone to one funeral of a soldier who died in the line of duty in Iraq. The least he could do on Veterans Day (of all days) is to head down to what is probably the nation's focal point for honored veterans. You know, solidarity and all that stuff.

• I didn't address the situation of Dennis Kucinich and his impeachment resolution in the House. He told The Washington Post that he expected it to be quickly tabled, but in an attempt to embarrass the Democrats, House Republicans voted for the measure and kept it alive. Finally, to keep from debating the issue immediately, Democrats successfully sent the measure to the Judiciary Committee. Theoretically, the committee would then kill the resolution by ignoring it, but the Judiciary chairman is John Conyers, who never completely bought in to Nancy Pelosi's position that impeachment was "off the table." Although the Republicans still reportedly think an impeachment discussion would hurt Democrats, I don't see how a fair and reasonable examination of the administration's wrongdoing does anything but tarnish the Bushies further.

• In attempting to make a joke, Mitt Romney instead made an odd and nonsensical statement about Adam and Eve that instead spotlighted how odd and nonsensical Romney is himself. As mentioned in Jake Tapper's blog at ABC News, Romney commented on the large leaves on a tree in an Iowa yard. "Adam and Eve would not have looked as promiscuous if they had had leaves this big." So it's the amount of clothes one wears that determines how promiscuous he or she looks? Did Adam and Eve look more promiscuous when they were naked before eating from the Tree of Knowledge (which made them ashamed of their nudity)? But where this whole thing falls apart is in the concept of promiscuity. By definition, Adam and Eve couldn't have been promiscuous because the idea couldn't have existed for them. Miriam-Webster Online defines promiscuous as "not restricted to one sexual partner." But Adam and Eve were restricted to one sexual partner because no other potential sexual partners existed! There was Adam, and there was Eve. If either one of them wanted to have sex, there was only one place they could turn. It didn't matter how large or small their fig leaves were.