He's No Colonel Sanders
You know, it comes in fits and starts, but lately I've been much better about posting content regularly.
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Those of you who have followed this blog for a long time will know that I love to read. I love to own books, I love to read books, I love to loan books, I feel I need books. One thing that I love, at that both Father Time and Peter have been lucky enough to witness firsthand in the form of my infamous archive CD, is the literal libraries worth of free, public domain, open source literature that one can find online. Some of these pieces of literature are precious works of church history, like History of the Church by Eusebius. Others are valuable pieces of ancient history, like Agricola by Tacitus. Still others are primary source documents, such as Ahmed ibn Fadlan's Rusiyyah.
Others are less enlightening. Hitler's anti-semitic tirade, Mein Kampf, is available online - in some instances on the websites of pro-Hitler hate-mongers, in others on sites that preserve it as the unfortunate (yet necessary) historical document that it is. You can also find the asinine and remnants of other wicked men who didn't come close to measuring up to Hitler's legitimate intelligence (for all of Hitler's many failings, he was in many ways a Machiavellian* political intellect) - documents like Guerrilla Warfare by one of the world's most colossal failures at guerrilla warfare, Ernesto "Che" Guevara.**
Okay, many of you are asking yourself by now: "He's linked to Hitler and Che Guevara; where is he going with this!?" Well, folks, a few weeks ago when I was looking up Guevara's fourth rate guerrilla warfare handbook, I was also looking up the infamous Green Book by Muammar Qaddhafi, which is both a pertinent document in understanding the recent history of North Africa and highly entertaining. Espousing his theory on politics, economics, and society, Colonel Qaddhafi reveals hidden truth about human biology - truly insightful stuff, fully worth turning this into the only occasion when anything related to female-specific biology will ever be mentioned on this blog. Observe:
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A few years ago... Well, come to think of it, I guess it was probably more than a decade ago. At any rate, back "in the day", I read an article by a guy named Robert Zubrin about colonizing Mars. That article is here. I was quite surprised today to read an article at AFP Spacewar on Zubrin, titled "The Plan to Destroy OPEC". I'm not sure I agree with Zubrin's position - I've spoken before about my skepticism about reliance on biofuels. However, I think that his overall premise is compelling. The article's worth reading if you have any interest in these or related issues - and there are a lot of related issues, the most pertinent being that of the relationship between energy independence and national security.
One of the big concerns around the world right now is the state of the American dollar, and you can't listen to American or foreign media without the issue coming up. (I think I even heard a crackly denunciation of American economic policies and the sub-prime mortgage issue on the Voice of Iran the other night - there's a big shocker.) Now, I'm absolutely in favor of a strong American dollar - if I were in charge of government spending, for example, I'd strengthen the dollar by dismantling redundant and/or pointless government agencies. However, despite the issues and the decline in the value of the dollar, it appears that the issue is a bit more complicated than just "devalued dollar = bad". One demonstration of this is that the European aerospace giant Airbus, the same company that went grossly over-budget in their competition with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, are having economic problems due to the attractiveness of American planes versus Airbus planes when sold side-by-side in dollars. Given that a Dreamliner can cost up to two hundred million dollars per plane, the potential positive impact to the American aerospace industry is considerable.
One of the funniest things I've seen in the news lately is this story. The woman who has been the voice of the London Underground, otherwise known as "The Tube", has been sacked for recording spoof messages. You can hear a few of them here; there are also a few more here, at least for the duration that the podcast is up (the relevant portion is in the last two minutes, starting at around 24:55). Very funny overall - even the part about "our American tourist friends".
When I've been to the Kingdom, I haven't heard obnoxious Americans on the Tube. I did hear this obnoxious American guy, I want to say he was from Texas, several rows down from me on a Virgin train from Edinburgh to Carlisle on 11th September, 2004. He was speaking with some Asian men, I don't know where they were from, but I was more embarrassed than you can imagine - having just spent two months, in (at that point) two different countries (with two to go) being a good ambassador for American manners, class, and humility. Anyway, funny story.
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Lately, I've tried to make a point of reporting every bit of good news out of Iraq that I could get my hands on. In the interest of full disclosure, I think that it's worth noting a couple of setbacks that have come about in the last few days. Not surprisingly, these setbacks have occurred not in Iraq, but in the West - save for one.
According to Colonel Don Farris of the 82nd Airborne Division, his troops have seen no decline in attacks in their sector of Baghdad, which includes either some or all of the infamous Sadr City. According to Farris, his troops saw nine EFP attacks in October, up from a monthly high of seven earlier in the year. However, even this article acknowledges that the rates of violence in Iraq have dropped considerably, and the ceasefire called by Moqtada al Sadr is holding.
Iraqi officials are seeking one final United Nations mandate authorizing the presence of the American-led coalition through 2008. An AP article indicates that the move has more to do with issues of the UN placing restrictions on Iraqi sovereignty. Overall, it's international political wheeling and dealing - worth checking up on.
The real setbacks for Iraq have been political, and they've taken the form of two recent defeats for foreign leaders who supported and continued to support the liberation of Iraq. Following October elections in Poland, a new prime minister has been sworn in - liberal leader Donald Tusk, who has pledged to withdraw the Polish contingent of nearly nine hundred troops from Iraq. Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a stalwart supporter of the Bush Administration and operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, has lost to Labor leader Paul Rudd, who has pledged to sign Kyoto (a whole different issue) and pull Australia's five hundred combat troops out of Iraq.
It's very frustrating to see these political figures base so much of their campaigns on pulling troops out of Iraq - just like it's frustrating to see the similarly pandering rhetoric of American Democrats (and Congressman Paul, but that's yet another tangental issue) in our own political race. It's additionally frustrating to see that they're focused on cutting and running ath precisely the moment in which the Coalition is beginning to consolidate what will hopefully be a tangible, unequivocal, and undeniable victory. However, political defeats for our close political allies in Australia and Poland do not negate the fact that we're winning in Iraq.
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I know that I've posted a lot of items about both Iraq and politics lately. Both are big issues, and both are pertinent and important. While I don't intend to turn this back into a political blog in the midst of the election, I think that politics will continue to be discussed here, particularly through the primaries. One we have the nominees, it will be clear who my candidate is, and why, and there will be less of a pressing need to post some sort of play-by-play of the election. However, I've mentioned a couple of times lately that I support Senator John McCain's bid for the Republican nomination, and I'd like to give a few reasons why. I'll start off with a few videos - if you're not interested in watching them all, do yourself a favor and at least watch the third and final video, which happens to be the shortest.
Why do I support Senator McCain? I support Senator McCain because I honestly believe that his policies are the best for our country, and I believe that his entire life has been spent living those policies and those values. In an age of political opportunists, corruption of the political process, and attacks on the American homeland and the American family, Senator McCain has a history of integrity and a reputation as a maverick. Allow me to give a few examples.
I'll start off with economic issues. The second video above gives some excellent examples of Senator McCain's demonstrated fiscal conservatism, and if there's anyone who has a history and a reputation for attacking frivolous political expenditures, it's Senator McCain. He has literally saved the American taxpayer millions upon millions, probably billions upon billions, of dollars over the course of his career. In a day and age in which the American dollar is devalued by both domestic and foreign factors, and this result is felt by Americans in the form of such heinous occurrances as hundred-dollar-a-barrel oil prices (which, as I've stated previously, is bought and sold on a dollar rate), this kind of fiscal leadership is precisely what we need. More on that later.
As far as social issues go, I believe that Senator McCain has been consistently correct on his stances. I'll admit to an incomplete knowledge on this front, but the one that sticks out is Senator McCain's consistent pro-life voting record. While I could vote for Mayor Giuliani or Governor Romney if either received the Republican nomination****, I'm far more comfortable with a consistent and unabashed pro-life record. Senator McCain has that, and has made no qualms about his Christian faith. As far as social issues go, I think that Senator McCain's biggest liability is his 1980 divorce; that having been said, I don't think that Senator Clinton, if she receives the nomination, would dare attack Senator McCain on such grounds. Further, while most of the other candidates come from money, Senator McCain is the son and grandson of Navy admirals - prestigious positions, to be sure, but no one joins the military to get rich. Senator McCain is very well off financially due at least partly to his wife's family connections to Anheuser-Busch, but that doesn't negate the act that he comes from a military family, not a wealthy family. Further, he graduated near the bottom of his class at the United States Naval Academy - I think those who take the time to learn that will appreciate the fact that he's been able to turn inauspicious beginnings into a successful career in public service.
Politically, Senator McCain is a bona fide conservative, but has an established record as a political maverick, and also has experience working across the aisle with Democrats. Do I think that he's necessarily the best candidate to bring healing and unity to America's political establishment? Maybe not the best, but I can't think of anyone better, and I can certainly think of candidates who would be much worse.
As most of you will have surmised, the most important issue to me is national defense. Why do I think that Senator McCain is the right man for this job? Aside from the obvious part - the one about him being a retired Navy captain, a combat veteran, and a former prisoner of war - Senator McCain has consistently been right on issues relating to national defense. He's held defense contractors accountable for giving the government what they promised, he has consistently supported the Iraq War, and he supported the "surge" long before it was popular among other politicians, long before it was implemented, and long before it was successful and showing results. No candidate has more defense experience or credentials than Senator McCain, and I can't positively name a single candidate on either side who has served in the military other than Senator McCain.
To top it off, Senator McCain favors a common sense solution to the economic tyranny of OPEC, and that solution doubles as a common sense solution to the political issue of climate change. That solution? More nuclear power. This is the right solution, many conservatives have been advocating for a long time, and one of those conservatives is John McCain. Many nations around the world, including France and Japan, derive the majority of their electricity from nuclear energy. In a world of constantly rising oil prices, nuclear power would ease American the oil burden that is compounded by America's overwhelming reliance on oil-burning power stations, simultaneously reducing the need for oil and natural gas heating systems in American buildings. This is a good, common sense energy policy that partially divorces American industrial and personal lifestyles from unstable foreign oil, while simultaneously slashing our carbon footprint (that should make hippies happy - unfortunately, they have irrational and unfounded fears about nuclear energy). The fact that Senator McCain supports this policy as a solution to a number of issues is very encouraging to me.
There are other reasons why I support Senator McCain, but these are the big ones. I supported him in the 2000 primaries, and I very much hope that he receives the nomination. Of the nine major candidates for the Presidency of the United States in 2008 (Mayor Giuliani, Senator Thompson, Senator McCain, Governor Romney, Governor Huckabee, Senator Clinton, Senator Edwards, Senator Obama, and Governor Richardson - my apologies to fringe candidates like Congressmen Kucinich and Paul, and Ambassador Keyes), I think that Senator McCain is the best qualified to lead our nation during this critical juncture in American and World history. That is why I support his candidacy.
That having been said, I remain encouraged by the viability and quality of each of the five mainstream Republican nominees - particularly Senator McCain and Governor Huckabee. After all, the only major qualification that Senator McCain lacks is that he's not Norris-approved!
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Zounds! Look at all of those asterisks! A total of ten! Great Scot! Alright, all that having been said, I must get moving on other projects for tonight - walking, reading, making a lunch for work tomorrow, and preparing my work clothes.
For those of you who are reading, one more thing. Next Wednesday, Thus Saith the Fly will celebrate its third birthday. Time permitting, I plan to compile two lists: my top ten posts since 05th December 2004, and my top ten favorite links that I've posted here (most of them having been posted, in various contexts, several times). I'll also post something quite novel - a side-by-side image of yours truly, The Fly, in 2004 and the Fly in 2007. Aside from many other changes, there have been some appearance changes over the last few years. At any rate, if anyone wants to weigh in on posts they've enjoyed over the last few years, please feel free - I'd love to see your input.
For now, have a brilliant Wednesday, and stay tuned.
* Niccolo Machiavelli's stuff is available online, too, and it's much more interesting reading than Hitler's finest prison rants.
** In fact, the only thing that Guevara was really any good at was posthumously hawking T-Shirts.
*** It will have to be, because the revolution he took on in the late 1960's really hasn't gone anywhere lately.
**** Mayor Giuliani is personally pro-life, politically a pro-choice moderate, but better on the issue than any of the Democrat candidates; Governor Romney is pro-life now, but used to be pro-choice, which is and will continue to be an issue.
Those of you who have followed this blog for a long time will know that I love to read. I love to own books, I love to read books, I love to loan books, I feel I need books. One thing that I love, at that both Father Time and Peter have been lucky enough to witness firsthand in the form of my infamous archive CD, is the literal libraries worth of free, public domain, open source literature that one can find online. Some of these pieces of literature are precious works of church history, like History of the Church by Eusebius. Others are valuable pieces of ancient history, like Agricola by Tacitus. Still others are primary source documents, such as Ahmed ibn Fadlan's Rusiyyah.
Others are less enlightening. Hitler's anti-semitic tirade, Mein Kampf, is available online - in some instances on the websites of pro-Hitler hate-mongers, in others on sites that preserve it as the unfortunate (yet necessary) historical document that it is. You can also find the asinine and remnants of other wicked men who didn't come close to measuring up to Hitler's legitimate intelligence (for all of Hitler's many failings, he was in many ways a Machiavellian* political intellect) - documents like Guerrilla Warfare by one of the world's most colossal failures at guerrilla warfare, Ernesto "Che" Guevara.**
Okay, many of you are asking yourself by now: "He's linked to Hitler and Che Guevara; where is he going with this!?" Well, folks, a few weeks ago when I was looking up Guevara's fourth rate guerrilla warfare handbook, I was also looking up the infamous Green Book by Muammar Qaddhafi, which is both a pertinent document in understanding the recent history of North Africa and highly entertaining. Espousing his theory on politics, economics, and society, Colonel Qaddhafi reveals hidden truth about human biology - truly insightful stuff, fully worth turning this into the only occasion when anything related to female-specific biology will ever be mentioned on this blog. Observe:
Women are females and men are males. According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being male, do not menstruate or suffer during the monthly period. A woman, being a female, is naturally subject to monthly bleeding. When a woman does not menstruate, she is pregnant. If she is pregnant, she becomes, due to pregnancy, less active for about a year, which means that all her natural activities are seriously reduced until she delivers her baby. When she delivers her baby or has a miscarriage, she suffers puerperium, a condition attendant on delivery or miscarriage. As man does not get pregnant, he is not liable to the conditions which women, being female, suffer. Afterwards a woman may breast-feed the baby she bore. Breast-feeding continues for about two years. Breastfeeding means that a woman is so inseparable from her baby that her activity is seriously reduced. She becomes directly responsible for another person whom she assists in his or her biological functions; without this assistance that person would die. The man, on the other hand, neither conceives nor breast-feeds. End of gynaecological statement!Wow. Women are females and men are males? Men don't get pregnant or breast feed? I wonder what other great scientific revelations Colonel Qaddhafi will make. The Green Book was published in the early 1970's, so he's probably due for something new - I have no doubt that it will be anything less than revolutionary***!
A few years ago... Well, come to think of it, I guess it was probably more than a decade ago. At any rate, back "in the day", I read an article by a guy named Robert Zubrin about colonizing Mars. That article is here. I was quite surprised today to read an article at AFP Spacewar on Zubrin, titled "The Plan to Destroy OPEC". I'm not sure I agree with Zubrin's position - I've spoken before about my skepticism about reliance on biofuels. However, I think that his overall premise is compelling. The article's worth reading if you have any interest in these or related issues - and there are a lot of related issues, the most pertinent being that of the relationship between energy independence and national security.
One of the big concerns around the world right now is the state of the American dollar, and you can't listen to American or foreign media without the issue coming up. (I think I even heard a crackly denunciation of American economic policies and the sub-prime mortgage issue on the Voice of Iran the other night - there's a big shocker.) Now, I'm absolutely in favor of a strong American dollar - if I were in charge of government spending, for example, I'd strengthen the dollar by dismantling redundant and/or pointless government agencies. However, despite the issues and the decline in the value of the dollar, it appears that the issue is a bit more complicated than just "devalued dollar = bad". One demonstration of this is that the European aerospace giant Airbus, the same company that went grossly over-budget in their competition with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, are having economic problems due to the attractiveness of American planes versus Airbus planes when sold side-by-side in dollars. Given that a Dreamliner can cost up to two hundred million dollars per plane, the potential positive impact to the American aerospace industry is considerable.
One of the funniest things I've seen in the news lately is this story. The woman who has been the voice of the London Underground, otherwise known as "The Tube", has been sacked for recording spoof messages. You can hear a few of them here; there are also a few more here, at least for the duration that the podcast is up (the relevant portion is in the last two minutes, starting at around 24:55). Very funny overall - even the part about "our American tourist friends".
We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loud.
When I've been to the Kingdom, I haven't heard obnoxious Americans on the Tube. I did hear this obnoxious American guy, I want to say he was from Texas, several rows down from me on a Virgin train from Edinburgh to Carlisle on 11th September, 2004. He was speaking with some Asian men, I don't know where they were from, but I was more embarrassed than you can imagine - having just spent two months, in (at that point) two different countries (with two to go) being a good ambassador for American manners, class, and humility. Anyway, funny story.
Lately, I've tried to make a point of reporting every bit of good news out of Iraq that I could get my hands on. In the interest of full disclosure, I think that it's worth noting a couple of setbacks that have come about in the last few days. Not surprisingly, these setbacks have occurred not in Iraq, but in the West - save for one.
According to Colonel Don Farris of the 82nd Airborne Division, his troops have seen no decline in attacks in their sector of Baghdad, which includes either some or all of the infamous Sadr City. According to Farris, his troops saw nine EFP attacks in October, up from a monthly high of seven earlier in the year. However, even this article acknowledges that the rates of violence in Iraq have dropped considerably, and the ceasefire called by Moqtada al Sadr is holding.
Iraqi officials are seeking one final United Nations mandate authorizing the presence of the American-led coalition through 2008. An AP article indicates that the move has more to do with issues of the UN placing restrictions on Iraqi sovereignty. Overall, it's international political wheeling and dealing - worth checking up on.
The real setbacks for Iraq have been political, and they've taken the form of two recent defeats for foreign leaders who supported and continued to support the liberation of Iraq. Following October elections in Poland, a new prime minister has been sworn in - liberal leader Donald Tusk, who has pledged to withdraw the Polish contingent of nearly nine hundred troops from Iraq. Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a stalwart supporter of the Bush Administration and operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, has lost to Labor leader Paul Rudd, who has pledged to sign Kyoto (a whole different issue) and pull Australia's five hundred combat troops out of Iraq.
It's very frustrating to see these political figures base so much of their campaigns on pulling troops out of Iraq - just like it's frustrating to see the similarly pandering rhetoric of American Democrats (and Congressman Paul, but that's yet another tangental issue) in our own political race. It's additionally frustrating to see that they're focused on cutting and running ath precisely the moment in which the Coalition is beginning to consolidate what will hopefully be a tangible, unequivocal, and undeniable victory. However, political defeats for our close political allies in Australia and Poland do not negate the fact that we're winning in Iraq.
I know that I've posted a lot of items about both Iraq and politics lately. Both are big issues, and both are pertinent and important. While I don't intend to turn this back into a political blog in the midst of the election, I think that politics will continue to be discussed here, particularly through the primaries. One we have the nominees, it will be clear who my candidate is, and why, and there will be less of a pressing need to post some sort of play-by-play of the election. However, I've mentioned a couple of times lately that I support Senator John McCain's bid for the Republican nomination, and I'd like to give a few reasons why. I'll start off with a few videos - if you're not interested in watching them all, do yourself a favor and at least watch the third and final video, which happens to be the shortest.
Why do I support Senator McCain? I support Senator McCain because I honestly believe that his policies are the best for our country, and I believe that his entire life has been spent living those policies and those values. In an age of political opportunists, corruption of the political process, and attacks on the American homeland and the American family, Senator McCain has a history of integrity and a reputation as a maverick. Allow me to give a few examples.
I'll start off with economic issues. The second video above gives some excellent examples of Senator McCain's demonstrated fiscal conservatism, and if there's anyone who has a history and a reputation for attacking frivolous political expenditures, it's Senator McCain. He has literally saved the American taxpayer millions upon millions, probably billions upon billions, of dollars over the course of his career. In a day and age in which the American dollar is devalued by both domestic and foreign factors, and this result is felt by Americans in the form of such heinous occurrances as hundred-dollar-a-barrel oil prices (which, as I've stated previously, is bought and sold on a dollar rate), this kind of fiscal leadership is precisely what we need. More on that later.
As far as social issues go, I believe that Senator McCain has been consistently correct on his stances. I'll admit to an incomplete knowledge on this front, but the one that sticks out is Senator McCain's consistent pro-life voting record. While I could vote for Mayor Giuliani or Governor Romney if either received the Republican nomination****, I'm far more comfortable with a consistent and unabashed pro-life record. Senator McCain has that, and has made no qualms about his Christian faith. As far as social issues go, I think that Senator McCain's biggest liability is his 1980 divorce; that having been said, I don't think that Senator Clinton, if she receives the nomination, would dare attack Senator McCain on such grounds. Further, while most of the other candidates come from money, Senator McCain is the son and grandson of Navy admirals - prestigious positions, to be sure, but no one joins the military to get rich. Senator McCain is very well off financially due at least partly to his wife's family connections to Anheuser-Busch, but that doesn't negate the act that he comes from a military family, not a wealthy family. Further, he graduated near the bottom of his class at the United States Naval Academy - I think those who take the time to learn that will appreciate the fact that he's been able to turn inauspicious beginnings into a successful career in public service.
Politically, Senator McCain is a bona fide conservative, but has an established record as a political maverick, and also has experience working across the aisle with Democrats. Do I think that he's necessarily the best candidate to bring healing and unity to America's political establishment? Maybe not the best, but I can't think of anyone better, and I can certainly think of candidates who would be much worse.
As most of you will have surmised, the most important issue to me is national defense. Why do I think that Senator McCain is the right man for this job? Aside from the obvious part - the one about him being a retired Navy captain, a combat veteran, and a former prisoner of war - Senator McCain has consistently been right on issues relating to national defense. He's held defense contractors accountable for giving the government what they promised, he has consistently supported the Iraq War, and he supported the "surge" long before it was popular among other politicians, long before it was implemented, and long before it was successful and showing results. No candidate has more defense experience or credentials than Senator McCain, and I can't positively name a single candidate on either side who has served in the military other than Senator McCain.
To top it off, Senator McCain favors a common sense solution to the economic tyranny of OPEC, and that solution doubles as a common sense solution to the political issue of climate change. That solution? More nuclear power. This is the right solution, many conservatives have been advocating for a long time, and one of those conservatives is John McCain. Many nations around the world, including France and Japan, derive the majority of their electricity from nuclear energy. In a world of constantly rising oil prices, nuclear power would ease American the oil burden that is compounded by America's overwhelming reliance on oil-burning power stations, simultaneously reducing the need for oil and natural gas heating systems in American buildings. This is a good, common sense energy policy that partially divorces American industrial and personal lifestyles from unstable foreign oil, while simultaneously slashing our carbon footprint (that should make hippies happy - unfortunately, they have irrational and unfounded fears about nuclear energy). The fact that Senator McCain supports this policy as a solution to a number of issues is very encouraging to me.
There are other reasons why I support Senator McCain, but these are the big ones. I supported him in the 2000 primaries, and I very much hope that he receives the nomination. Of the nine major candidates for the Presidency of the United States in 2008 (Mayor Giuliani, Senator Thompson, Senator McCain, Governor Romney, Governor Huckabee, Senator Clinton, Senator Edwards, Senator Obama, and Governor Richardson - my apologies to fringe candidates like Congressmen Kucinich and Paul, and Ambassador Keyes), I think that Senator McCain is the best qualified to lead our nation during this critical juncture in American and World history. That is why I support his candidacy.
That having been said, I remain encouraged by the viability and quality of each of the five mainstream Republican nominees - particularly Senator McCain and Governor Huckabee. After all, the only major qualification that Senator McCain lacks is that he's not Norris-approved!
Zounds! Look at all of those asterisks! A total of ten! Great Scot! Alright, all that having been said, I must get moving on other projects for tonight - walking, reading, making a lunch for work tomorrow, and preparing my work clothes.
For those of you who are reading, one more thing. Next Wednesday, Thus Saith the Fly will celebrate its third birthday. Time permitting, I plan to compile two lists: my top ten posts since 05th December 2004, and my top ten favorite links that I've posted here (most of them having been posted, in various contexts, several times). I'll also post something quite novel - a side-by-side image of yours truly, The Fly, in 2004 and the Fly in 2007. Aside from many other changes, there have been some appearance changes over the last few years. At any rate, if anyone wants to weigh in on posts they've enjoyed over the last few years, please feel free - I'd love to see your input.
For now, have a brilliant Wednesday, and stay tuned.
* Niccolo Machiavelli's stuff is available online, too, and it's much more interesting reading than Hitler's finest prison rants.
** In fact, the only thing that Guevara was really any good at was posthumously hawking T-Shirts.
*** It will have to be, because the revolution he took on in the late 1960's really hasn't gone anywhere lately.
**** Mayor Giuliani is personally pro-life, politically a pro-choice moderate, but better on the issue than any of the Democrat candidates; Governor Romney is pro-life now, but used to be pro-choice, which is and will continue to be an issue.
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