Dead: 1015
Wounded: 7040
Barry Bonds: 699

I wonder which of these statistics is on the minds of most people these days.

No doubt the media will preempt programming to cover Bonds' imminent breaking of the 700 home run mark. Of course, there was no preemption of programming to announce the 1000th US soldier to be killed in Iraq.

I'm going to guess that George Bush will call to congratulate Bonds upon accomplishing his feat; I have a feeling he didn't call the family of the 1000th soldier killed in Iraq.