Crossfire is the New Hopscotch

Want to read about what I do at work?
Of course you do- otherwise you wouldn't read blogs.
What exactly do I do for a living?
I'm not trying to be evasive, but I really can't tell you much about it without having to kill you.

Not that I'm involved in anything covert, clandestine or illicit- it's just that a detailed description would either drive you to suicidal despair or simply cause you to expire from boredom.
But- I do have broadband internet and lots of free time.
I use it constructively.
Today I spent an hour tracking my internet traffic.
I have developed a mild obsession with tracking exactly what words people type into their search engines to find my blog- above is an example: someone in Germany typed the phrase
"never question authorities" into Google and my site was #1 out of over 60 million hits.
The history of German authoritarianism does not, in my opinion, conjure pleasant imagery, so I'm not certain I want this place of dubious honor.
"never question authorities"
hmmmph

Dear Reader, please question authorities.
No - forget the please. The time for manners and decorum has long since passed.
I insist that you question authorities.
With due respect to Thailand, not every King loves his people.

Some kings are Mad Kings. War Kings.

Only a Mad War King would consider digging a giant moat around Baghdad to be a sign of spreading "freedom and democracy".

Nothing says "Liberty" like a 60 mile moat around your hometown.

Our Mad War King's legacy will be a 95 km ditch around a giant pile of rubble formerly known as the cradle of civilization.
From cradle to mass grave.

Iraqi children will bury their parents in this ditch and then skip merrily back to the bombed-out orphanage , playing 'crossfire' all the way. Those kids are certain to grow up loving America. I shudder to think of the gratitude they might display if given the chance.

When I think of war and trenches, I think of Verdun.
Dachau and bulldozers.
Pol Pot and punji sticks.

I find it difficult to place these ditches, trenches and tunnels in any sort of positive or uplifting context.

Let's build a moat around freedom.
We're fighting a modern version of a 12th Century war- why not use updated medieval siege technology?



--"THE BITE OF FREEDOM'S HAND"--