Boring?

My eldest son is currently 3 months into his second tour of Iraq, only 12 more to go. I was chatting with him awhile ago online with one of those Instant Messenger services. Its amazing that such close contact can be maintained with a soldier who is deployed to an active war zone! Unprecedented, and I venture to posit, historic in its magnitude. More about that some other time though. My chat with him was rather short and superficial in its entirety. This isn't really a bad thing, inasmuch that other than classified events that he is prohibited from talking about, a lack of noteworthy events in a war zone is fantastic. He, of course, has far more to chat with to his friends his own age, than to dear old Dad. This bothers me not at all, and is normal and expected.
What is noteworthy is the lack of significant events. Who ever heard of fighting a war thousands of miles from home, surrounded on all sides by hostile forces and nations, and not having something to talk about? Its similar to having a factory job, boring and routine, yet this is a war.
Now don't get me wrong, I know over 3000 Americans have fallen during the last 4 years, and I mourn the loss of these brave soldiers. But as I was pointing out to my soldier son awhile back, more Americans died as a result of alcohol related traffic incidents in the first 3 months of the year, than during 4 years of war.
If the rest of his deployment is this uneventful, I will consider it a roaring success.

Umm, could be rabbit!

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." Ronald Reagan
So does this mean the 'john' is the taxpayer, who has to pay to get screwed? I think ol' Ron was more right than he knew.

Grand (Re)Opening

The overly opinionated old goat is back. I had thought about resuscitating the old "Infectious Individualism", but couldn't remember the user name, or password. I had closed it anyway. R.I.P. Its still a good read IMO, but then I'm biased aren't I? Give it a read if you wish.
Funniest thing though - I hadn't looked at the old blog in a year, and upon rereading my last post was amazed and a bit shocked to see that the very news and events that I had ranted about then, 54 weeks ago, could have been todays headlines! I suppose it just goes to prove the old adage, "Same Shit, Different Day"
Anyway, I hope to get a chance to rant, at least semi-intelligently, here on occasion. My hope is that not only will I have an outlet for my musings and random thoughts, but to be thought-provoking and perhaps even entertaining to any who may stumble upon these words.
I invite comments of at least room temperature IQ. Since I am often accused of being an ogre, be warned, ogres hate trolls, not only will I crunch troll bones, I delete their comments too.