It's been a long time, baby!

Wow! It has been nearly 2 years since I started this blog and I haven't posted anything since. I don't understand how those who have active blogs write as much as they do and often as they do.
Oh well, lets try again.

Been away for a while

I haven't posted much in the past few weeks because I have been terribly busy with work and preparing for school this fall. Hopefully more will be up soon as the present state of the world seems to beckon commentary.

"Rough Rider" Bush

I've been thinking about the state of affairs in Iraq of late and began reflecting on how earlier presidents handled their wars against small, third-world countries and realized that maybe President Bush should take a page from history as a possible solution to the situation in Iraq. Maybe he can take a page from the first "bully pulpit" president TR and assemble his own regiment of "Rough Riders" to go to Iraq and end the WoT by bringing "it" to the terrorists.

Let's take some time and try to envision this sort of endeavor...(begin dream sequence distortion...)

Baghdad -- President Bush today resigned his office and vowed to "bring it to the terrorists" himself. The former president has set upon the task of putting together his own cavalry regiment to take on the terrorists of Iraq. Similar to its turn of the twentieth-century predecessor this "Rough Rider" type regiment will be composed of former Ivy League college students and athletes, CEOs, Texas cowboys, border-patroling Minutemen, and evangelical christians. Members of the "Bush Riders" as the regiment has been nicknamed, will all be ardent supporters of the current incursion in Iraq who until joining had confined their involvement in the conflict to purchasing "Support the Troops" car magnets, trolling anti-war blogs, wearing purple band-aids, and attacking Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore. Said one member of his joining the regiment, "They won't be able to call us the 101st Fighting Keyboardists any more."

...end dream sequence

Youth ring tone.

Bad news for the aged.

Rising Crime

Joe in DC over at AmericaBlog has a discussion on the recently released FBI statistics on crime in the US. I agree that funding cuts have contributed, but would add that it seems to me that when the economy is good the crime rate seems to go down and when the economy is bad crime seems to rise. The Bush Administration keeps telling us that the economy is good, but maybe this is a reflection of the real state of the economy.

Indy Murders

A report tonight on one of the local Indy TV news programs detailed the tributes and rubber-neckers who have been visiting the home on the eastside where the immigrant family was murdered. One family from nearby Mooresville that was featured was so moved by the death of these poor people that they had put a professionally prepared decal listing the names of each family member placed on the rear window of their van. I personally feel empathy for this family, and have thougth about how horrible it must have been in that house that night, but don't quite understand these people who place memorial tributes at the site of a tragedy. I would never presume to intrude on the grief of the neighborhood or the surviving family.

First Post

I've decided to create this blog to provide me with an outlet for the myriad and sometimes discongruent thoughts that clutter my brain. Expect more to follow on a varitey of topics; be they history, politics, technology, and any of the other hundreds of topics that constitute my thoughts.