Supporting our Troops: I'll hold them up--You, please, shoot them.

Simultaneously blogging this dawning morning, and listening to Monteverdi's Orfeo on National Public Radio: What a lovely computer I have!   Don't much care for the original-instrument astringency and paucity of real Monteverdi; so have switched to a classical music station in Minneapolis: had been Mozart, and is now Ravel, 'Introduction and Allegro' for (as I hear it) harp, flute, clarinet, and string quartet--if we must have modern music, this is the modern music to have.  And now a Boccherini guitar quintet:  Heaven! 

Speaking of what our Troops in Iraq are up to, one Arwa Damon, on the opening page of CNN.com, says, "It's not the three and four digit numbers that sicken you.  It's details. Monsters disguised as men scrape skin off bodies, gouge through eyes and yank out fingernails.  That's what gives meaning to thousands tortured in Iraq...."