Archive for January, 2008

For some reason Americans don’t like to put ketchup on their spaghetti and they seem to recoil at the thought of spaghetti and ketchup sans extras as a legitimate course. Back in the Old Country we labored under the impression that Americans pour ketchup on everything – maybe that’s mostly a Mid-Western thing – so [...]

2007 was a pretty good year. Not as good perhaps as the magical 1999 when money, fun and excitement were everywhere, but still pretty good. It was certainly better than all the years between 1999 and 2007. Best of all was the turnaround in Iraq and the resulting drop in U.S. casualties thanks to the [...]