Merry Christmas 2006

To regular visitors: Thank you for the valuable gift of your time and attention, and the wisdom of your comments.

To newcomers: Welcome. I hope you consider what you've found here has merit, and that you'll return.

Now go be with the ones you love. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.

This Day in History: December 25

And such they are--and such they will be found:
Not so Leonidas and Washington,
Their every battle-field is holy ground
Which breathes of nations saved, not worlds undone.
How sweetly on the ear such echoes sound!
While the mere victor's may appal or stun
The servile and the vain, such names will be
A watchword till the future shall be free.--Byron