But it’s okay, because it doesn’t make the war sound as bad.

Over at the New Nebraska Network, Don Kuhns shares a letter he wrote in which the World Herald’s editors changed data on the cost of the Iraq war:

The editing job you did on my last letter contained an error that cannot be ignored. The sentence you altered was this:

“According to the Congressional Research Service, we now spend approximately $328 million per day in Iraq.”

You changed that factual statement into this false statement:

“We are spending tens of millions of dollars daily on Iraq.”

Since when is it the job of an editor to change a completely reasonable, accurate, and easily verifiable statement into one that is demonstrably false?

I could understand wanting to perhaps adjust a hyperbolic account of spending to something more precise and verifiable, but Kuhns obviously started out precise and cited his source.

I wrote a piece last week on the similarity between cartoons depicting Bonds with an asterisk.

Apparently Steve Breen doesn’t look at other people’s cartoons either…or maybe he just thinks this is an original take on Barry Bonds and The Asterisk.

Check out his cartoon from today’s Union-Tribune.