TIME's Person of the Year

Bloggers, TIME has announced its selection for Person of the Year:

Barrack Hussein Obama!

Hell, yes! They got the annual proclamation right. This blogger is proud!

Pearl Harbor

This blogger recalls being taught as a child that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. This is true. He doesn't recall being told that the United States blockaded Japan to control expansionism.

Sayin,' not "just sayin'."

Book: Dreamers of the Day

Dreamers of the Day, latest novel by Mary Doria Russell, takes readers behind the scenes of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, where Churchill, Lady Gertrude Bell and TE Lawrence invented the modern Middle East. A richly imagined, suspenseful novel, Russell's book brings an exciting story of one woman who dares to experience a new world and to push the limits of her understanding of herself and others.

Your blog author attended the book signing and now has an inscribed copy in his library!