My father, having just viewed this site, thought it was important that I mention that my grandfather didn't willingly drop that 'h' from lehrhaupt. Apparantly, it was in a forced bid to make it less German sounding while they lived in Poland. Somehow, I doubt www.lehrhauptski.com is taken.

We also spoke of the international sentiment against war with Iraq. Its pretty terrible how poorly our foreign policy is run. Though I've never read the Art of War, I'm sure there is something to be said about winning the minds of people-- how even if your cause is correct and the outcome, necessary, that if you can't properly bring people to see from your viewpoint, then you have lost. In our case, we have just alienated everyone. Unfortunately, our simplistic leadership will never quite grasp how snubbing our allies on all sorts of earlier issues (kyoto, steel tariffs, etc), is now rearing its ugly payback today. Or, maybe, its just another chapter in Europe's history of appeasement.

Either way, in America, its all explained as part of the same right-wing conspiracy which brought the shuttle down as my father tells it. I said no, dad, it was the left-wing which brought the shuttle down. And so another "dad joke" comes into being.

And, by the way, someone should have told that dude that pot was a Gateway drug.

By Gary at 06:00 PM in World | Comments (0)