"Harder than it used to be."

I was lazing about in bed in this morning when my mom yelled up the stairs that the new Indiana Jones was showing at 9:30 and 10:00, and who wanted to go?

Well, I'm back. And I'll say this: it was no disappointment. Blogger Mark Kennedy's concerns were warranted, true, but it rose above them to deliver a satisfying moviegoing experience.

Overall, I preferred Iron Man - although Mom pointed out that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had more actual female characters. But neither is a waste of your $8.25 U.S., nor of your afternoon.

(And, as with Iron Man, we went to the bookstore after. Newest acquisition: The Album Leaf, Into The Blue Again.)

"The War Prayer"

From Fred 'slacktivist' Clark, who found it through The Washington Monthly:

From thewarprayer.com - available also on YouTube.

It was written circa 1905 but unpublished for a decade thereafter - six years after Twain's death - for fear that it would be seen as sacrilegious or unpatriotic.