No Post Tonight, Just Pretty New Faces

No Blog tonight. I'm too busy reading Michael Gordon's new book Cobra II. Finally a book that looks at the Iraq War from a macro perspective. No personal memoirs or political axes to grind, just the events as they occurred both in Washington and in Baghdad. If you ask me, anyone who starts giving you their opinions about that war that hasn't read this book is just blowing a lot of hot air our their...

Be that as it may, this book should be on the bestsellers list. The fact that it isn't just shows me that there are a lot of people who made up their minds about this war a long time ago and aren't interested in what really happened. Either that or they just wish the war would go away. I'm about a third of the way through and I can't put it down.

But like I said, no blog tonight. I just wanted to test out this new Hilary Hahn banner ad thingy that hopefully is appearing somewhere in the right hand column. I thought my blog needed a little youth and beauty to kind of brighten the atmosphere so I added it to the template. And no, Deutsche Gramaphone isn't paying me for running the spot. Which really pisses me off! Hey, DG, you know Walmart pays their bloggers.