Technical difficulties, please stand by... You would think, would you not, that now, September 2008, right now, with the world embroiled in wars, a presidential election campaign in full swing that, regardless of outcome, will have historic^©! consequences, with global financial structures and institutions crashing down around our heads – a time, in short, that future schoolchildren will read about in their history books, books which they hopefully will be able to read by something other than candlelight or the light given off by the family furniture as it is burned for heat, a time that definitely lives up to that fictitious Chinese curse about interesting times – surely, right now would be the time to furiously tap-tap-tap away at the keyboard, recording the reactions of us peons out here in flyover country to the creaks and groans of the mighty juggernaut History as it rolls over us.

Yeah, well, it ain't happening. My desktop PC is lying in little pieces down in the basement, awaiting an emergency CPU transplant from Crazy Eddie's CPU Barn, and Moira's entering her 15th month of blogger's block. (Well, not exactly. What she actually said was more like, "If I write what I think, then everyone will assume I'm crazy." Join the club, dear.) History will have to trundle along without our commentary for the moment.

Posted by David Fleck at 23 September 2008 05:52 AM