Strange Times

Passing strange times, indeed. For example, did you ever stop and think just how truly bizarre it was that absolutely no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq? I mean, even if they had moved them all en masse to Syria like Norman Podhoretz likes to believe, you would think they would leave a detonator or blue prints or something in the dust bin. All there is is a bunch of MacGyvers: we found a sequence of pencils, each one shorter than the preceeding by exactly 4 mm. They were all No. 2s. or, we found a series of jugs that some anthrax would fit into very, very, very nicely! or, we found some belly dancing music that could have been encrypted directions to suicide bombers! and so on. It is very strange to find nothing. Not a scrap. Not a overlooked envelope from Prof. Khan used as a bookmark and sticking out of a volume of Abu Nuwas. The only thing that is 100% is the utter absence of WMDs. I think it is very odd. The times are out of whack, as Shakespeare said. Wars and rumours of war, comets, botox...all bring their baleful glow upon the Earth.