Like most of you, I have a day job, although I'd like to be so rich I didn't have to, some day. At my day job we have meetings. Meetings are basically a cheap way of disguising our inner animal, which wants to growl at others. If we just did that, meetings would be tolerable, but instead we've got several tons of politics and politeness to mask the fact we want to fight it out.
Pentagon war games confirm what was reported here two weeks ago: al Qaeda will not take over in Iraq if the U.S. leaves. This is in direct contradiction to Bush's claims to the contrary.
The Washington Post reports on the Pentagon's war gaming of such scenarios.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"