MY DAD’S FINE — the main nursing service I provided was offering to refill his drink — but the main therapeutic benefit from my blog hiatus has been the drastic improvement of computer-related pains on my part. Maybe I should start taking weekends off.

Thanks for the many nice emails, though to be honest so far I’ve only looked at the subject lines on most of them. Back later. In the meantime read this, and be sure to scroll through the comments, too. And don’t miss this roundup on Iraq by Den Beste.