They say that God is on our side and makes us mighty

The lawsuit against Bill O'Reilly was settled out of court. That's too bad, not only because I wanted to hear the tapes that allegedly exist, but because I wanted him exposed for the jerky pervert he is. I'm not sure whether the fact that the plaintiff was willing to settle out of court means there was some kind of dirty work on O'Reilly's part (which wouldn't surprise me), or he really was innocent of these particular charges. I mean, I still suspect he was guilty, but O'Reilly is such a freak that it would be easy to level false charges against him and have people believe them. You know, kind of like Michael Jackson. (Whatever happened to that suit against him, anyway?)

On an unrelated (or maybe partially related in some way, but I can't think of a transition) note, I've been thinking about my anti-war stance. Not in regards to the war in Iraq in particular, but just to war in general. There might have been certain situations where going to war was the only immediately visible solution, or the lesser of two or more evil courses of action. I have to wonder, though, if this sometimes means people aren't thinking hard enough. I mean, sure, I can't always think of a viable alternative to war, but it isn't my job to come up with one, either. Aren't our elected officials theoretically supposed to be smarter than me? Isn't that supposed to be at least part of why they're running the government, and I'm not? The fact that these supposedly skilled officials can't come up with any better way to solve problems than the ancient notion of "might makes right" strikes me as rather pathetic, not to mention disturbing.