I had a bit of surgery last week and will be taking a break. There are many worthwhile topics to discuss, but typing one-handed takes too much concentration. So, I’m checking out for a while. See y’all around the first of June. By then I should be rehabbing my shoulder. Nothing serious — they cleaned out a bunch of arthritic bone spurs, repaired a tear in the rotator cuff and dealt with a severely inflamed tendon.
In the meantime, something to think about. I was watching Ken Burns’ Civil War series on a local PBS station, and Shelby Foote, a historian with Southern roots, made the statement that the war occurred because Americans forgot how to compromise — the very thing that he says is our genius as a nation and the essential thing that makes our form of government work.
More Light Than Heat 