Ah, the Memories (or Something)

So it's Memorial Day, which means a day off from office jobs (but not retail jobs), some time for cleaning and shopping. And then some remember our fallen soldiers.

I like to think about war and peace, although I've never read the book version. And last week, the Economists Intelligence Unit, a name that doesn't mean anything, put out their "Global Peace Index." You might be surprised to learn that the United States doesn't rank terribly highly on the list. But at least we're ahead of Libya. Oh, wait. No, we're not.

The United States ranks in the bottom third of the 140 countries ranked. Two of the bottom five countries are Iraq and Afghanistan (which could be as warred as they are because we invaded them).

Iceland is #1 on the list of most peaceful, although the index doesn't take into consideration their utter obliteration of the whales in their waters.