Excellent analysis of why Clinton and Albright got us involved in Kosovo to begin with. I was going to write an opinion about this, but this article pretty much sums up my opinion of the whole deal. Coming from the anti-war, peacenik side of American politics, neither Maddy nor Bill had much experience in war-making. [...]

The more things change. . . Otis Pike offers some interesting similarities (and some humorous ones) between 1999 and 1929: [defunct strib URL -ed.] The paper had plenty of lively local news. The society page photographs showed skirts, before 70 years of big ups and downs, almost exactly where they are today.

Meta: One of the harder things about running a weblog is generating all the HTML, links, and text formatting by hand. It would be nice to use a scripting environment like Frontier, but Frontier is available only for Windows and Mac systems, and I’m a Linux weenie. So I’m going to take some time to [...]

A year later, and the blog finally has a name. Note how I’m still complaining about how much of a pain it is to do all of the weblog stuff by hand. Unfortunately, web.archive.org appears to be missing all of my posts from March-June, 1999. Possibly others. Someday I may find an aged backup CD [...]