Kevin Cullen says this story was hard to write. But even though you know how it ends, you'll read it to the end.

Boston Common and Harvard.

City elections officials ordered a local troop's collection boxes for soldiers in Iraq removed from polling places last week because of complaints they were pro-war.

Here, here and here.

Jeff Egnaczyk was good friends with Andrew Bacevich, killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq on Sunday. He mourns him:

John Daley suspects it's because the local anti-war movement has been hijacked by the loonie left:

... With speakers flinging four-letter words from the bandstand, advocating dismantling the state and later, upon seeing police bikes along Tremont Street, exclaim over the PA, "I didn't know pigs could ride bikes," it's no wonder that mainstream (or in this case, all) politicians and most working people stayed away.

Plans call for joining hands to create a 100-foot-diameter peace symbol in the square on March 10 between 1 and 2 p.m.

Via David Bernstein.

At least two state representatives think so.

Third Decade posts photos. So does Amyblog.

Right now I am listening to WBUR's broadcast of the president's news conference concerning North Korea and Iraq.
I try to listen objectively to his addresses to the nation but it is hard. I am always left with the image of a comedian who is just not very good but insists on trying to keep the audience's attention. I don't know that this is better than the typical image I have of him, which is as the teenage son who tries really hard to do adult things but ultimately needs his dad, usually in the form of Mike Brady, to bail him out.

Apparently we are working really hard in Iraq and while the news broadcasts are terrible, we have to stay the course. As to North Korea, while we are not pleased with what they have done, [nuclear testing] we will work with them diplomatically to resolve the issue.