The start and end of history: Vietnam: The aging ‘60s crowd will be in nostalgia heaven starting tomorrow at the JFK Library: They’ll get to discuss Vietnam and JFK all weekend. If this is a scholarly preview of what’s to come, I think I’ll take a pass. Note how it states JFK had the 'outline' of a withdrawal plan from Vietnam – but then again we really can’t know what he would have done if he had lived. … I counted in the piece use of the following slippery words: two ‘suggests’; one ‘seems’; one ‘seemingly’; one ‘appears’ and one ‘sense,’ not to mention four open-ended questions, all designed to fill factual voids in the never-ending quest to distance Camelot and JFK from Vietnam blame. …Hey, I admire Kennedy and have a strong hunch he wouldn’t have screwed up as bad as LBJ if he had lived. But I’m not going to say what he suggested and appeared to have seemingly sensed and intended in Vietnam amounts to hard ‘lessons’ about Iraq.


Dawn Silvia sighting!: Carpundit points out an interesting new blog, Beantowners, whose rather impressive roster of bloggers includes among others Dean Johnson and ... DAWN SILVIA!!! ... Martha Stewart doesn't know what she's talking about. Dawn is most definitely not 'unfit.'  ¶ 8:24 AM