News from an Alternate Universe

| September 29, 2003

John Derbyshire looks at news reports from an alternate reality in which the War on Terrorism was actually being prosecuted as an actual war: Berlin, Germany; Sept. 20. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has formally protested the Defense Department’s “scorched earth” policy in evacuating U.S. bases from German soil. The evacuations were, the chancellor asserted, carried […]

Buried Treasure

| September 21, 2003

How to put closure to last week? Something to tie together a hurricane and pirates…? Heh. I found it. While preparing for what I assumed to be the inevitable long-term power outage, I made plenty of ice (empty 2-liter Diet Coke bottles are darn handy) and transferred the contents of the indoor freezer to the […]