The armed forces are amassing in the gulf--once again, it seems, we will go to war. The paper reports the number of planes, tanks, missiles--there is a colorful diagrammatic speculation of how an attack might be executed. I am finished being shocked or surprised at any of it. Another section of the paper describes a bar in Los Angeles that sells Oxygen for $13.00 a breath. It becomes easier and easier, I have found, to pray for an end to the world.