Sunday, August 22, 2004
  OUT OF OFFICE

It's going to be a busy next two weeks, and I won't be able to devote much time, if any, to a keyboard. So I've decided to make things simple and take a break entirely. And a break may also help me clear my head -- although many of you are likely sniggering to yourself already something about my head being empty enough.

I'll be back (unless they happen to, say, catch bin Laden) around September 6. (If I'm not, that was, shall we say, probably owing to a VERY good reason beyond my control.) Until then, try to enjoy what's left of summer.

Oh, and if you are planning on clicking out of here now, you might consider exiting via one of these other excellent blogs below (if you don't already read some of them daily, that is):

All Agitprop
Being American in Toronto, Ontario (We keep hoping Debbye will return.)
Bluebook Authority, The
Daily Ablution, The
Democrats For Bush
Erik Svane
Free Thoughts
The Galvin Opinion
George Miller
Highway 99
In Notts Forest
Laban Tall
Let It Bleed
Murdoc Online
Neither here nor there
¡No Pasarán!
USS Neverdock
Viking Pundit
Yankee From Mississippi

And thanks, as always, for coming by. . . 

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This site created and updated entirely by myself, Robert, a New Yorker living in London and Dorset, England -- and it spares my lovely, soft-spoken English wife from having to endure my carryings on. She thanks you for the peace and quiet she has found.



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IT WASN'T REALLY HIS WAR EITHER
WHY BUSH?
TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE


This silliness by an A.N. Wilson

and this weirdness by a Brian Sewell

both courtesy of "Yours Truly"



(MSM will quote just about anybody nowadays!)


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Some recent hits:
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"The World" polled...again
Learning to think differently
Our "angry" world
"Photojournalism" from The Eternal City
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©? Copyright? Well, myself, I guess. But there is nothing too dramatic here. I was born in 1965. I've got graduate degrees in political science and in history, and I've taught in an American university. More importantly, I like music, books, travel, and find skiing a bit of a challenge -- however, as my wife LOVES to ski (and can ski very well!), of course I LOVE to ski, too. ;-) And, overall, I'm probably a lot like yourself: Nobody special, just someone who looks at what's reported and too often thinks, "Hmm . . . that doesn't sound quite right." And then I bash a keyboard.


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Particularly special sorts:
Being American in T.O. (We hope she'll be back!)
The Cabarfeidh Pages (We hope he'll be back!)
Consul at Arms
The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns
The Daily Ablution (He has promised he'll be back!)
Going Down Range (We hope he'll start a new blog!)
Iberian Notes
Laban Tall: UK Commentators
Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness
Midnight Blue (We hope she'll be back!)
Moron Abroad (We hope he'll be back!)
Murdoc Online
¡No Pasarán!
Observing Hermann
Preya: Dreaming of Hanoi
Pub Philosopher
Robert Duncan: Spero Blog
Stefania Lapenna: Free Thoughts
Suitable For Mixed Company
TigerHawk
USS Neverdock
Viking Pundit
Villains Vanquished
The Vol Abroad
Yankee From Mississippi

Blogroll:

Blogroll this site!

Some SUPER blogs (that I should probably just link to):
Anchoress Online, The
Blackfive
Buzz Machine
Chrenkoff
Dave Barry's Blog
Dean Esmay
EU Referendum
Hot Air
Instapundit
Little Green Footballs
Michael Totten
Michelle Malkin
One Hand Clapping
Pajamas Media
Powerline
Real Clear Politics
Right Wing News
Tim Blair
Wizbang

"The more he saw of Europe, the dearer his own country became, taking a luster to all its parts that no one bound to the farther shore could know it merited." (p. 331)

Where have you gone, F.D.R.?

"Do not let us be hair splitters. Let us not ask ourselves whether the Americas should begin to defend themselves after the first attack, or the fifth attack, or the tenth attack, or the twentieth attack. The time for active defense is now." (President Franklin Roosevelt, radio address . . . September 11, 1941.)

Ah, being married to an English, T.R. fan. Rather amazing that:


The wife drives the M3:
The wife leaves me in her snow wake as usual:

Media, etc.:
AGI: Italy Online (news)
Americans Living Abroad
Ann Coulter
Australian, The
Best of The Web
Boston Globe
BBC
C-Log
Corner
CNN
Daily Telegraph
Daniel Pipes
Dave Barry

Democrats Abroad U.K.
Deutsche Welle
Evening Standard (London)
Expatica: Belgium
Expatica: France
Expatica: Germany
Expatica: the Netherlands
Expats.tv: Czech Republic
Expats News
Expats.tv: Hungary
Expats.tv: Poland
FOX News
Globe and Mail
Honest Reporting
Human Events
Insight
IHT
Irish Times
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
L.A. Times
Mark Steyn
National Review
Newseum.org (Today's front pages)
New York Times S.F. Chronicle
Sydney Morning Herald
Telegraph
Times of London
Townhall
USA Today
Washington Post
Washington Times
Xinhua - China News


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