and also, i talked to my eight-year-old brother about the war for fifteen minutes tonight. here is a nearly-verbatim string of quotations:

"i don't know about it, but even if they did send planes into the twin towers that's no reason for us to go and kill lots of them. they're kids like me...and when we kill their president that's not good for us to do, even if he was bad, because then who will be in charge of the country? how will kids get to school?...i know this war isn't good like the war Grandpa Hoover fought in, because they didn't hurt us first. the president then was very smart and good, but i don't like our president now..."

yep.

also, he reports that he was very good at school every day this week and made a peace sign for his window. and that he was glad to hear that i wasn't in jail, but proud of me for "doing politics at that protest."