It's Funny How the Truth Sounds Like Poetry

Picked up a copy of Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse today in the Barnes and Noble discount section. It was marked down from $26 to $4. Meanwhile, reality show DVD's were selling like full-priced hot cakes.

Neither here nor there.

I'm 12 pages in and already the prose pounds like a machine gun playing Bach's own harpsichord. Here, look:

"The day before I wrote this, Carlos Arredondo, 44, of Miama, Florida, jumped into a military van, dumped out a five-gallon canister of gasoline over himself and lit it, burning up half his body. Minutes before, the MPs who stopped the van at his house told him his only son was shot dead in Iraq. Neighbors said Arredondo went crazy. I don't think so. I think he went sane."