kuniform

Why are the neo-cons in the Bush admin so concerned about flooding the media with stories which re-interpret Vietnam? Like this story which calls Kerry’s testimony an aid to the enemy which allowed the Viet Cong to hang in much longer. This is so much bullshit, as a) the VC were fighting their own revolutionary war, and would fight to the last and b) even our own administration had Rand Corporation projections which indicated the Viet Cong would win. It’s just so much easier to re-debate a murky war of empire that happened 30 years ago than Iraq, which is happening today. For one thing, all these stale old farts from the Nixon era like Rumsfeld have had 30 years to prepare their arguments, while for this new war, there is no argument.

No offense to Colonel Day, who suffered greatly and unjustly in the service of our great country.

Allow me to indulge the proud Poppa side of me for a second with these baby pics:

I am a lucky man. As I rumble into my mid-30’s, I have a great wife + baby to experience the second half of my life with.

For the past few weeks, all I have been doing is reading Krazy Kat, Peanuts, Pogo, the Watchmen, and Spirited Away. I’d link all these things to pithy sites about them, but I’m lazy today, and you can Google them. All I can say is ‘wow!’ or I’d be writing an essay on these fine gents and their storytelling and illustration skills, especially regarding Walt Kelly’s use of shadow.

From my buddy Vivek, who is a boy from the subcontinent who is unlikely to act aggressively. A Preference Plays Out: an article on the cultural preference for male over female babies is an interesting article about bare branches (i.e.—young males without prospects) and their propensity for violence.

Chilling, but interesting, reading.

Thanks to Coop for the suggestion for the title: Kuneiform. I like the tie-in between cuneiform (google it here) and ‘Kunesh’, since there’s not much other word-play to get from a Bohemian name like mine. Cooper’s site, though the home of a highly skilled Java architect, and though Coop is the proud owner of a shiny new logo by a mutual friend of ours, still looks like something which crawled out of the bowels of a desktop publishing program for the IBM PCjr.

Whoa! I cannot say much better for this site, though, since I’m still tweaking the look pretty big time.