Apologies

As i said when i started this endeavor, i have a real life which sometimes must take precedence over my beloved blog. For the past few weeks I have been unable to post new material. Face it, the political world right now is in the equivalent of the "phony war" (look it up). The Iraq situation is just more depressing. I am looking for signs of hope in the fact that US and Iranian diplomats have and are talking, and the fact that nutty Iran president Ahmanijad seems to be on a short lease, held closely in check by his real masters. Oh , he will bark now and then when the clerics who run Iran want to stir up the population with patriotic and nationalistic rantings, but so far, he is pretty quiet.

More later.