The First Post of March

We write this at Starbucks, where the blonde roast is....drinkable. 

Rough back-to-back days at the gym this week. What's up with that? Fatigue? In any event our muscles feel exercised and sinewy. 

Failed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has lost her reelection-bid. Does it matter? Probably not. But we may enjoy the demise of a politician who so deserves scorn and humiliation. The New York Post reports. '“I’m a black woman in America. Of course,” she replied when asked by a reporter if she had been treated unfairly."' Thoughts and prayers, fisheyes.

Tim Pool points out that like vote for like in Chicago. 

The color revolution continues in Israel. 

In The New Jew, Karol Markowicz writes, 'The New Jew openly loves Israel and does not let anyone believe otherwise so that she can fit in with her usual political side. There is no “but…” same as one can love France or England and not launch into a dissertation about their political wrongs.' I've been this Jew for 25 years. Welcome to the party. Just yesterday we wore our Israel hat around town and wore an Israel T-shirt to the gym. It's not much. But it's something. 

Remember, there's a thousand causes and a million sob stories out there, but only one reason to support Gazans and West Bank People. Just one. Liberal Jews who hem and haw about Israel 'Oy....Netanyahu and the Haredi parties...' disgust us. These are the people who insisted the Oslo Process was right, even after the Second Intifada began. See for example Tom Friedman. A strong, proud Israel can be embarrassing when cavorting with the Upper West Side and Hollywood types.  

Updating our South Africa post from yesterday, The Daily Mail reports on the chaos in that nation: 'South Africa is on the verge of “collapse” amid rolling blackouts and warnings a total power grid failure could lead to mass rioting on the scale of a “civil war”. Western embassies including the United States and Australia have advised their citizens in the country to stock up on “several days worth” of food and water and be on high alert during extended blackouts sweeping the country.' South Africa was a once great country with vast natural resources, an educated workforce, a stable currency...Heck, they even built nuclear weapons. Now South Africa is going the way of Venezuela. 

South Africa's Bush War was fascinating and fun to write about and led to World War 1990: Castro's Folly. 

2023, 2003 and Me. So it was 20 years ago this month that one of the editors at Strategy & Tactics magazine accepted a short piece of ours for publication. That piece was titled Sparta's Defeat of Athens. After having one piece accepted, we decided we wanted to prove it wasn't an accident. So we submitted another piece, Frederick the not so Great, which was also accepted. And away we went...86 magazine articles later, here we are. Told ya 2003 was a good year.

February KDP read numbers:

Reads are remarkably consistent. Blue is The Aftermath of 1976, yellow is The Great Nuclear War of 1975, red is WW1990: The Weser.