Need we say more? No.

But do read this excellent essay on Common Sense2 by Cousin Lynn re sports idols and war. Keeping the tea baggers and other strident opponents of nonsense in mind while those who know better remain silent, I quote from Lynn's piece:

Martin Luther King Jr. said:

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”