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As promised, photos are up from our two week vacation to Canada and San Diego.  Only a month late.  And by popular request, they're on Facebook too.

From Edmonton:

When I put Casey's Infantry Tactics on my Blackberry, I chuckled to myself that I'm the only person who would enjoy such a confluence of the deep past and the ultra-modern.  In 1855, US Secretary of War Jefferson Davis commissioned as US Army officer, Hardee, to write a new manual on tactics.  When the Civil War started, both Davis and Hardee went to the South, and in 1862 Hardee wrote a new manual for the Confederates.  The US Army couldn't stand using a tactics manual that had been written by a Confederate so they commissioned

Today is Nathan's first day with the nanny.  She told me this morning that the first day with a new family always makes her nervous.  I didn't tell her that I'm nervous too.

I'm now available for freelance web design.

Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast

By ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN

Published: October 19, 2009

AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters. But recently it has been issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.