Can New Year’s resolutions be meaningful given the ersatz nature of calendars? While I’m not personally equipped to address the issue as I’ve always utilized the deficits of others as a measure for self-improvement, I can say this: The practice of … [Continue reading]
Saddamed If You Do
Now that the National Guard has been sent home and the search for Dru Sjodin has been called off, her family must sit through the winter with the grim reality that it’s not often a body dug out of the ground turns out to be alive. Saddam Hussein, … [Continue reading]
Channeling FDR
In 1941, Franklin Roosevelt met secretly with Winston Churchill off the rugged Newfoundland coast. The two fabled leaders took an immense risk in waters lousy with U-Boats, but therein charted the course of World War II and its European aftermath. … [Continue reading]
G.I. Joe, Esq.
Donald Rumsfeld insists that Iraq is not another Vietnam. And he’s right… it’s much worse. It took four years to rack up 397 active duty deaths in ‘Nam. Bush has done it in just seven months. In 1965, combat troop levels stood at 130,000, the same … [Continue reading]
Foxy Eyes
In the course of his rampage through Europe, Napoleon observed that history is but a set of lies agreed upon. General Bonaparte, possessed of great intellect and having ravaged civilizations both old and ancient, spoke with great authority and so … [Continue reading]
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