Pat Dollard

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7:41 A.M. PST

Just got up. Head wasn’t down at all yesterday. Crazy busy day. Very good friend just got out of jail. Spent some time. Good friend in Baghdad let me know that they’ve only been mortared twice in two months, which is no more dangerous a thing than walking around most neighborhoods alone here in L.A. at 3 AM.

It was not cool, but at the same time very cool, or to point a finer point on it, absolutely astounding and surreal to report yesterday that we had our first Marine casualty in 100 damn days yesterday in Iraq. Absolutely surreal, absolutely terrible the Marine died, absolutely wonderful that the peace has broken out so far, wide and impactfully.

My thoughts and prayers for his family.

The Republican Party seems thankfully to be coming out of some weird electoral alcoholic blackout, looking at McCain like a wildebeast in bed next to them, and saying “My God, what have I done?”

9:16 A.M.

I’m trying to remember what young Iraq war hero’s death got as much attention as a nice young junkie who got overpaid to make entertainment and drugged himself to death.

5:57 P.M.

Bush didn’t destroy the Republican Party. The Republican Party damaged the Republican Party by chickening out about the Iraq war when the going got tough.

11:43 P.M.

The country surrounds the city.