We woke up this morning to sirens and a helicopter. There was a big fire a couple of blocks away at some apartments. It was big enough to make the TV, anyway.

Yesterday G&V got past Don into 4th place, and they were also at 1065 caches... they obviously have a mission. Good thing it's not a competition!! We'd meet at 1800 in mid-August. Then we couldn't cache at all, since the car went in, and then Rich had meetings, so today it's even worse. Almost 1500 in late July, though neither of us got caches yesterday.

Disney at War. I obviously have to get this set!

Joanne Jacobs says "Don't know too much."

Do you know who is teaching your children?

We put out one of the Jeep 4x4 travel bugs, and it was picked up within a half-hour, and then again immediately. Heh.

Emperor Misha fisks Jesse Jackson.

Quagmire!!

Liberal Computer Virus.

Belmont Club:

Ex-Presidents Ford, Carter, George H. Bush and Clinton -- all able men in their own way -- might ask themselves if it was 'fate' and not some fault in themselves that bestowed a greatness on Ronald Reagan that will almost certainly elude them; though fortune is a two-edged sword as Ronald Reagan's long illness reminds us. It is especially poignant for Bill Clinton, still young and possessed of a restless intelligence, to ask himself if he could have done better, but it is ultimately a futile question. Maybe the moment came to him and maybe it didn't, yet it passed before he knew it.

Joshua Muravchik wishes he could vote for Bush twice.

Are we safer now than we were before we began to fight back against the terrorists? Perhaps not, just as we were not safer when we began to resist Hitler, prompting him to declare war on us. Back then, we were not safer until we had won. And we will not be safe now until we have defeated the terrorists and their backers.

Would some other president have made the same brave choice as George Bush to shoulder this "long twilight struggle"? Not Bill Clinton, whose eye was always on the electoral calendar. Not the elder Bush, who didn't think much of "the vision thing." And surely not John Kerry, who tells us that he voted against the Iraq war of 1991 although he was really for it and voted for the Iraq war of 2003 although he was really against it.

Kerry mourns, Clinton is miffed, (He has a hard time knowing it's not All About Him), and Bill comments.