History's Lessons, Big Boy Golf, March Madness, Photo Blogs

Picture: girls smiling.

Items of Note on a Monday Morning:

-a Pat Buchanan quote from a comment (Quotation Man) on a Kevin Drum blog on John McCain's economic policy which is really saying more about something else, somebody's folly or something:

"With our lavish $1 billion American Embassy in Baghdad, Pax Americana will have reached its apogee. But then the tide recedes, for the one endeavour at which Islamic people excel is expelling imperial powers by terror or guerilla war.

They drove the Brits out of Palestine and Aden, the French out of Algeria, the Russians out of Afghanistan, the Americans out of Somalia and Beirut, and the Israelis out of Lebanon. We have started up the road to empire and over the next hill we will meet those who went before - broken and defeated. The only lesson we learn from history is that we do not learn from history."
-- Pat Buchanan

Pretty amazing, right? Wonder if anybody was paying attention? Probably not; we are human afterall and like to do things for ourselves - live our own lives, make our own mistakes. Too bad we don't have some more built in restraints, like maybe a responsible oversight by an equal branch of government, or maybe a strong United Nations that can say "Whoa, feller, not so fast..." Live and learn or not learn as the case may be.

-Tiger still alive at Doral but he sure didn't help himself yesterday. His 'close-the-deal' putting is taking a break. Five back with seven to play on a Monday morning. Weather playing havoc with the big boys lives as well.

-March Madness: Sweet Sixteen determined; Davidson and Villanova and Western Kentucky the only double digit seeds left. A whole bunch of cheering for Butler here in this house on the hill yesterday afternoon. Alas to no avail. The Bulldogs lose in overtime.

-and if you have time and interest, check out the photo blogging world online. This is a good place to start. And this is one of the photoblogs I've been looking at with a Cambodian classroom being the photo subject. Here's another by a guy who calls himself Boxman and took a shot of a 'cattle' and a dog. Cool.

Time to get on with my day. Gonna go and find the warm button so that those among us who would like to play a little golf can do just that.