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The New York Times published an op-ed by Gail Collins, complaining about the Governor of Alabama proclaiming April as Confederate History Month, and more generally about Southern revisionism.  I think Ms. Collins is slipping into the classic partisan mode of taking certain things for granted and being unable to fathom the possibility that the other side might see it differently.  True, I do believe the current socio-political chasm in this country is mostly the fault of the conservatives who hunt for wedge issues, but this type of myopia doesn't help.  The truth is, the state vs. federal debate was far from closed at the end of the Civil War, and legitimately lives on today.

Yelena & I left Nathan in San Diego with the grandparents for the week.  Yelena's got work to distract her, but I'm just sitting around the house all day.  (Job hunting doesn't take my mind off the missing kid.)  So I compensate by going through my photo backlog.  Here are two new Nathan galleries:

Back in time two years, that is.  I've finally finished my backlog of Civil War photos with my Knight's Ferry gallery from 2008:

Many years ago, my father in law and I bought several very old, cheap webcams so that our extended families could skype with each other.  Windows has long since stopped supporting this webcam, and the Taiwanese company that made the webcams have long since stopped supporting the driver.  Yelena's new MacBook has a gorgeous built-in webcam and I bought another new webcam for Nathan's Babycam, which I intend to set up again.  But I still have these old webcams and don't want to throw them away.  What to do?

As promised, here are the photos from KF.  Credit to Camp Mom Judy for actually taking the shots.  It's nice to be in some, for a change.