Month: September 2006

Strange times indeed.

I. We are trying to keep up our use of petro-chemicals, but I never feel quite patriotic anymore.  I got the large polyester American flag down at WalMart, and it said “A product of the USA, made in China,” but...

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Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and Generalissimo George

Cross posted at the front page of My Left Wing. No one starts a war–or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so–without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to...

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Good Luck to the Saints

Tonight the New Orleans Saints will play the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football in the refurbished Superdome. I heard a New Orleans resident refer to the Superdome as Louisiana’s World Trade Center. I don’t...

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