It's untidy. Freedom's untidy. Stuff happens.
--Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on the current anarchy in Iraqi cities.

Freedom What would make a writer cancel a book promotion? .

The author of "The Boys of Summer," one of the most popular books ever written about baseball, has canceled a book–tour appearance at the Baseball Hall of Fame to protest the museum's cancellation of an appearance by actors Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon due to their anti–war views. A Reuters wire story reports that author Roger Kahn sent a letter to museum president Dale Petroskey, a former member of the Reagan administration, who had cancelled an event honoring the baseball movie "Bull Durham" because it would have involved an appearance by the two movie stars. "In theory, at least, we have been fighting this war to give Iraqis freedom of dissent," wrote Kahn. "But here you, through the great institution you head, have moved to rob Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and (writer–director) Ron Shelton of that very freedom."
· Very Freedom [ WireStory]