do we need a $355 BILLION defense budget? thats just about $1 BILLION a day in defense spending, for those of you that can't do the math. seems excessive, given the number of hungry and homeless people I passed on the way to work this morning.

If you don't read Harper's Magazine, pick up this months edition. in it george mcgovern takes the bush administration to task on the defense budget, among other things, and makes a strong, lucid case for liberalism.