Perhaps The End Of The Beginning

      Excuse me a moment while I respond to this article: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! *cough, cough, hack, hack, mild suffocation, deep breath, deep breath, extended pause* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

      I'm sorry. I shouldn't respond so cynically. Then again, there are two things that Churchill said that could fit comfortably in the Dubster's mouth: "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it" and "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." Does anyone else, by the way, find it eerie that Churchill once told Roosevelt that he should call the Second World War "The Unnecessary War"? Churchill would have appreciated the irony in remembering this now. (Winnie, on the other hand, would have been dumbfounded by Bush's capacity to mangle even monosyllables.)