Beyond Boston...

Juan Cole offers this sobering note.

Wire services report that 120 persons died in separate incidents in Iraq on Wednesday, the one-month anniversary of the "transfer of sovereignty" to the caretaker government of Iyad Allawi.

Meanwhile, the "coalition" fatality count grows to 1032, including 911 of the American soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen tht were applauded on the Convention floor last night.

Hope is on the way, and it can't arrive too soon.