A dogged morning to Stroock's Books enthusiasts across North America and judging by the traffic map, France, Ukraine, Kazakhstan (Borat say hello!), India and Indonesia. Oh, and Shabbat Shalom.
We feel melancholy as we await the return of our family. Today we'll sojourn across the dread Hudson River for lunch with our father. We should have done this last week, but oh well.
Hey, would all you foreigners from various foreign lands like to visit your Amazon and buy one of our books? You like nuclear war? How about a conventional WWIII? Maybe an Alternate Hitler?
Book sales remain an art not a science. Up one day, down the next, then back up, then back down. Book sales are like a hot but temperamental girlfriend. She's not talking to you now, but you just know later she'll wiggle into that outfit you like.
Mark Steyn predicts civil war in Britain. Most Americans' mental picture of a civil war is North vs South. Lebanon in the 80s or Northern Ireland is more likely, even here. In fact, judging by this Legal Insurrection post, we already have a Northern Ireland style civil war in America. Up the RA, we guess. Reminder, for every solution the Irish will find a problem.
Hmmm...in World War 1990: the Managua Campaign, what's the GI nickname for Cuban rebels/insurgents? For that matter, should we be calling the Cubans insurgents? [Call them freedom fighters!-Ed]. Shut up, Ed. Would you say Thomas 'Slab' Murphy was a freedom fighter? He was more a smuggler and IRA financier. Arguably the number 3 man in the IRA after Messrs. Adams and McGuiness.
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