Well, then! To all of the few of you reading uBlog at this point, I have simultaneously won success not only in transferring Figure Concord contents from one domain to another, but have reimported all of my blogging data: and managed to reinstate the ability to leave comments, to boot! Damn.
Tinkering with the silicon world has always resulted in drawn-out, character-building epics where I consider flinging myself out a window several times before, finally and mercifully, a given computer or software program relents and services my request. This outing, though fraught with the risk of losing all of my posts, was practically seamless. Painless. I feel great!
I had a fantastic discussion with the honorable Mr. Richard Grice at lunch today. Spying the headline "White House Wimp-Ou?" of my twice-folded The Wall Street Journal, Rick proceeded to address his concerns with the Bush Doctrine: should we impose our values on the rest of the world?
I argued for aggressive implantation of democracy. A friendly argument - he's quite a broad-minded fellow - I'd like to think that I planted a seed of consideration in his mind. Baby Boomers, I notice, exhibit a certain sedentary perspective in regards to foreign policy. They grew up with the Iron Curtain, as obstinate and apparently infinite symbol of evil and oppression as ever there was one. 1989 seems yet to have sunk in, and most Baby Boomers (many in power and directing America's policies) are incognizant of the potential for a new world order - the expulsion of dictatorship and the edge-to-edge expansion of freedom.
The most striking idea I was able to put into words: acting in the right is by no means diminished when unpopular. Esteem is not moral authority.