Quote of the Day
Rome did not fall over a long weekend and our age has had a lot more history to learn from than did they. The ramparts you must man are the most difficult sort: metaphorical ones. Far less blood and thunder, far less thud and blunder and even the most heroic incur but little physical risk and garner little recognition. But if these battles are not fought — or if they are engaged too foolishly, with the wrong weapons and on unfavorable terrain — future generations will pay the price.
That’s why I’m not “voting from the rooftops” and why I am voting in the more-traditional manner. And it’s why I bother to blog. – Roberta X, Wall? Head. Rock, Paper, Scissors