Ramblings of a Desiccated Mind

Something to remember as the anniversary for the successful campaign in Afghanistan during the winter of 2001 rears its ugly head ... we have gone around the days of the weeks since the attack on September 11, 2001. It happened on a Tuesday. This anniversary will be on a Tuesday.

In memorium, we still do not have Usama's turban, we are still in bed with Saudi Arabia, and Iraq is definitely not better off now than it was seven years ago.

So ... other than the dead -- our dead soldiers now outnumber the people lost to the events of that day -- what's to commemorate?

Just food for thought while the rockets' red glare blinds us during this coming anniversary.

Don't forget, too, very important -- General Petraeus' Iraq Report is soon due to be delivered.

Pay attention.

in reading the message boards today (all two of them that I allow myself to visit), I'm getting amped up again. A friend of mine said something stupid on one, I made a post there and someone called me out (quite insultingly) on an issue of specificity for one word in my 300 word post, and on another board I'm just staring ... shaking my head, trying not to feel superior, but wondering how these people have so much time in the day? I mean ... there's tons I should be doing, but I don't have a proper family.

I don't begrudge anyone a good time, but I feel like I have things to get done ... I just don't know what they are.

All I can think of is the great Obi Wan Kenobi's quote -- "Who is more foolish -- the fool, or the fool who follows?"

And, my friends, the answer is the fool who follows.