Friday, December 30, 2005
Thursday, December 29, 2005
More December: Cabin Fever
Gabriel camping out in front of the stove.
Johan and Daniel have been roughhousing since they were 6 and 5 respectively. Now they are 21 and 20, both Army Rangers, and both nationally ranked MMA shootfighters. I figured the couch was doomed. This is called "small joint lock", by the way.
Johan and Daniel have been roughhousing since they were 6 and 5 respectively. Now they are 21 and 20, both Army Rangers, and both nationally ranked MMA shootfighters. I figured the couch was doomed. This is called "small joint lock", by the way.
I made this sandwich. Daniel ate it.
Maritha with her birthday presents.
Monday, December 26, 2005
Images from the End of December
Daniel on leave.
The Fortress at Dusk
Maritha puts out julkärve.
Sunlight on the back porch.
Sunlight on the back porch.
Johan, Daniel and Micke
Johan, Daniel and Micke
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Monday, December 12, 2005
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Images of the Day
New cobblestones in the Fortress.
A storefront church opens on Kärlekstingen.
C-130 and Rangers.
Airborne.
Vanäs Fyr at 1.30 PM.
Reporter on the job at Mölltorps Hembyggsförenings Julmarknad.
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Saturday, December 03, 2005
A Letter to Maureen Dowd
Ms. Dowd -
First rate column, again.
The neo-liberal adventure in Iraq (there's nothing conservative about it) is destroying lives, homes, money, democracy, respect for the truth and the good name of the United States. It's a hideous monster brought into the world by ignorance and deceit and it's wrecking much that is precious.
What to do?
First, get ahold of people who know something about the Middle East. That will be a huge first step because right now they aren't anywhere to be seen in the corridors of power.
Second, get real - not make-believe - help from Moslem allies to stabilize Iraq or get out.
The current "coalition of the willing" doesn't have a 1 in a 100 chance of turning Iraq around. They are despised by all sides in the conflict - including their Iraqi "allies" - and don't have the on the ground intelligence to do a tenth of what they have to do.
Why is this happening? Simple: The United States has throughout its history had fantastic, God-given luck with leadership in times of crisis. That luck ran out on September 11th, 2001.
First rate column, again.
The neo-liberal adventure in Iraq (there's nothing conservative about it) is destroying lives, homes, money, democracy, respect for the truth and the good name of the United States. It's a hideous monster brought into the world by ignorance and deceit and it's wrecking much that is precious.
What to do?
First, get ahold of people who know something about the Middle East. That will be a huge first step because right now they aren't anywhere to be seen in the corridors of power.
Second, get real - not make-believe - help from Moslem allies to stabilize Iraq or get out.
The current "coalition of the willing" doesn't have a 1 in a 100 chance of turning Iraq around. They are despised by all sides in the conflict - including their Iraqi "allies" - and don't have the on the ground intelligence to do a tenth of what they have to do.
Why is this happening? Simple: The United States has throughout its history had fantastic, God-given luck with leadership in times of crisis. That luck ran out on September 11th, 2001.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Way down in Nubiya
Myself and Muhammad al-Nubiye at tea in Aswan, January 2005.
Good thing they stuffed that crocodile.
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