Even though Heavy Metal in Baghdad never hit the mainstream movie theatres, the documentary, released on DVD earlier this month, is already a hit.

On Tuesday, I urged serious attention to Naomi Wolf's warning that if citizens don't act we could be a facing the End of America. Today, I want to highlight the warnings coming from career government servants who left the US government in protest at the beginning of the Iraq war. Several of those servants contributed to a recent anthology, Dissent: Voices of Conscience, edited by Col. (ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon.

My favorite thing about participating in the blogosphere is the opportunity it provides to walk a mile (or two, or twenty) in the shoes of people in very different life experiences from my own.  I have been learning much lately by reading some of the blogs by parents holding down the fort at home while their spouses are deployed overseas in the U.S. Armed Forces.  Many of these families are blogging their journey with great honesty and courage.

With the 24/7 media coverage of the presidential campaign, Michelle Obama on The View and stories about what John McCain calls his wife, there's a news gorilla in the room we've been ignoring -- the Iraq War. Sure, we hear on the campaign trail that Barack Obama wants to bring the troops home and McCain, not so much. But the coverage of what's really going on in Iraq isn't making it onto the nightly news shows.