Hammer Mill Days

Stop complaining, you two! If I have to come back there again ...! Just do as I do and tie another sandbag to your ankles. Look smart - we've got more important things to attend to than mere gravity . Oh, hi. Didn't see you there on the other end of that ethernet cable. I was just reading the riot act to the two Lincolns (anti- and posi-). They've been complaining incessantly about the intermittent gravity here in the Cheney Hammer Mill. I keep telling them, lighten up, goddamnit, but... then they float away. Why do they always grouse at me? Bring your complaints to Matt, you damn lazy Lincolns. At least HE has the sense not to respond in any way. (You know those artistic types.) I guess I answered my own question, eh? In any case, Mitch is still messing with the magnetism of mother earth, as you have likely gathered. Perhaps you yourself have noticed some minor glitches in gravitational constancy. Perhaps not. (Hey... there could be a lot of reasons for that floating feeli...

President Obama is committing another 17,000 soldiers to the war in Afghanistan, we learned this week. Characterized even by liberals as "the good war" some time back, our occupation of that sorry place has begun its eighth year. That's reaching Iran/Iraq war duration, and lord knows that conflict went on way too long. Only 18% of Afghans are in favor of this escalation, along with 34% of Americans (predictably higher, since we're not the ones being surged upon). So why the hell are we still in Afghanistan, anyway? I've heard a lot of arguments, but none seem all that convincing, frankly - no more so than the ones I heard back when Bush decided post 9/11 to descend upon the basket case his predecessors left behind years earlier, after bankrolling fanatics like Gulbeddin Hekmatyar and their terror-league allies for a decade or more. In 2001, Bush Jr. traded one set of war lords for another. What's Obama's plan? I think before we as an imperial nation (don...