Just today

Hrm not much to say today, compared to these last few days.

I’m sorta tired of warblogging, but I need to say one thing.  A lot of people are acting ridiculously and saying ridiculous things regarding this war.  Ridiculous is being surprised that there are casualties and POWs.  Ridiculous is being surprised that the Iraqi regime violates laws and human rights of our POWs -- they’ve been doing those things as long as anyone can remember.  Ridiculous is asking if the war is a failure, or asking if we are "getting off track," because there have been casualties and POWs and human rights violations.  Ridiculous is asking "what’s taking so long" 5 days into the conflict.  Ridiculous is being willingly ignorant of all history and logic, because that is the only way a person can ask such questions.  It is mind-boggling how supremely unreasonable people can be.

I feel better having gotten that out.  Den Beste has an in-depth analysis and explanation of all this, and after reading that I felt the need to comment.

It was really nice out today, about 60°, and I rode my bike 11 miles.  It never fails to amaze me how happy I get from just riding around to places I’ve never been.  I ended up in this really awesome neighborhood with big, beautiful houses.  All custom, too, not like the suburban-sprawl-induced clones that are springing up like weeds everywhere.  Most of them were on about 2 acres, some on 3 or 4 or 5, and all the lots were partially wooded, with big, tall, old trees.  And the neighborhoods were hilly, which gives them so much more character.  I suppose it was still State College out there, about 6 miles from my house, probably greater State College.  You certainly don’t see real estate like that in State College proper.

I had 231 visitors today!  The old record was 190something.  That’s exciting.  Lately I’ve noticed that when Google indexes my webpage, it often indexes nodivisions.com/ directly, instead of indexing a post like nodivisions.com/?197.  So when someone finds my site that way, the post they’re looking for may well have gotten pushed off the main page because there are newer posts.  So I added a search box at the top of the page, from which you can search this whole blog/messageboard.  Hopefully that will help some people out.