Keeping our eye on the ball

You remember Jessica Lynch. She's the former POW that the Bush administration tried to use to sell propaganda, until she tripped them up by telling the truth. She turned out to be a more genuinely remarkable person than we had any right to expect. The army's concocted spin made her out to be both more and less than she is.

Earlier this week she testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform hearing to separate fact from fiction. I don't know if you can call that being brave, but it's undoubtedly the opposite of being cowardly.

Here she is along with the brother of the former NFL star Pat Tillman who was killed in Iraq (And who the same administration treated us like naive children about).



Which brings us to my point. Jessica Lynch is a truth-teller, a genuinely remarkable and brave person.

She is also hotter than Nelly Furtado only wishes she could be.

(Nelly, "30 Rock"...I'm really hitting my pet hates today)