So anyway…

There are old folk tales about fairies coming and taking away a baby or small child and replacing it with a fairy child, a changeling. You could tell the baby was a changeling by its odd look, its strange habits, etc. Changeling children weren’t necessarily always bad, but to the superstitious people of the Middle Continue reading →

“Can’t we skip all that disturbing night-vision bombing stuff and go straight to the jubilant liberation footage?”

I just read a statement, written in absolute seriousness, that since many of the performers who were appearing at the Academy Awards had spoken out against the war in Iraq, and yet the government was sending National Guard to keep an eye on the proceedings, the ones who had spoken against the war (which, of Continue reading →

“The biggest problem facing any democratic system of government, and the concept of majority rule, is that the majority of people are idiots.” Hehehe. I think that about sums it up. Unfortunately, I don’t have a name to attribute that quote to, as I only know the person by a screen name. If this is Continue reading →

John Howard, Australia’s Prime Minister, is giving a press conference as I write this. George W. Bush called him this morning and Howard has officially committed Australian troops to war. Oh, yes, he says that we’re not officially “at war” and he’s giving a bunch of statements about how Australia (and the United States and Continue reading →

Regular readers will be aware of my position on George W. Bush and his impatience to start a war. In a nutshell, I DO think Saddam Hussein is dangerous and a dictator, but I don’t think he poses anything like an immediate threat to the world and he is disarming (slowly, reluctantly, yes, but it Continue reading →