A fragment of his attention noticed that the sun had come up, that the tides were flowing, and that the heat warmed the sand between his toes. The rest of his focus rested on his opponent, while his hand rested on his pommel. The sun fortunately did not blind him; perhaps his opponent would have been too honourable to attack while he was blinded. He did not wish to find out.


The rising of the sun meant two things however: that he and his opponent had focused all...

I'm feeling an essay coming on, I've been recently learning more on Lepanto and on Dien Bien Phu, so probably one of those, and probably fairly soon.

Woohoo!

Christopher Hitchens has passed away, falling to esophageal cancer at the age of 62. He was a writer, journalist, polemicist, critic, an opponent of injustice and oppression and always willing to speak his mind fully. It was a shame that only within the last couple of years he became more of a public figure, since he was a radical challenger to the status quo and had no problem criticizing society's "sacred cows", being a vociferous critic of figures such as Bill and Hilary Clinton,...

I need to write a new thread

Kind of in a funk about this place right now, don't know when I'll be back, but probably in a few weeks, maybe a month or two, just need to get away for a bit from the site