<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Our old friend surveys the pile of dead Americans in Iraq, and concludes, after 700-plus words, that it's perhaps best to remain mum on the topic -- save for himself, of course.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><<A href="http://slate.com/id/2106466/">http://slate.com/id/2106466/</A>></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wonder if this applies to the relatives of the dead? "'Bury your kid and shut the fuck up!' he roared from the pub's far corner, then sank into reveries about the sex lives of war poets . . ." </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>DP</DIV></BODY></HTML>