Regular readers may be wondering why I’ve taken a break from my anti-war blog, only to bring more anti-war thoughts here to metaphor. I’m wondering the same thing myself. Maybe I have more to say about that misbegotten conflict than I thought.

I’ve had a few e-mails about the photo currently in the sidebar. Yep, that’s me on the right, looking a bit daft or at least nonplussed. And my little brother Joe on the left, looking simply happy. Don’t know the guy in the middle. … I’m kidding, it’s Santa Claus!

That was December 1967. Ho ho ho.