It has been seven years now, and what I wrote two years ago is still applicable, sadly.
Now, each fall, we hear the distant thunder, the stories about predator drones in Pakistan, gunships dancing over barren hillsides, and collateral damage destroying the people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And all with it the faint promise of finding the guy responsible, while showing his work, a snuff film on the jumbotron, to justify our latest folly.
More later,
Happy Tolkien Day
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So, Happy Tolkien Day, for those who celebrate with a cup of tea, old
books, and the good green things of the earth.
--John R
--current reading: MacDon...
3 days ago

