Electric Josh

Meanwhile, across town...
The fine folks at The Atlantic nicely describe the RAND Corporation's list of ten fairly major pieces of current world news that we've heard nothing about (at least that I've heard nothing about), the most fascinating being the developing Iran-India alliance. This space really needs to start reading The Economist again.
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Safer
Oct. Report Said Defeated Hussein Would Be Threat. Huh!?
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Islands
The harbor islands are pretty cool, but we took the boat from Hingham only to discover, once arrived, that it's impossible to visit islands other than George's island if one's car is parked in Hingham, due to last minute boat schedule changes that had, of course, not been mentioned anywhere except on the island itself, a bit too late to do anything about it. At any rate, sure enough, there's a pre-Civil War era fort, Savannah style, right out there in Boston Harbor, a twenty minute ferry ride from downtown, or, I hope, a slightly longer kayak. They had the usual assortment of Civil War reenactment people hanging out, dressed up in heavy wool uniforms and firing muskets and cannon. It being a national park (state park?), there were also about ten million junior high kids tooling around, being irritating, shrieking for no reason, annoying even one another.

A "vintage baseball" game with Civil War era rules (hit the ball too far and it's a foul, not a home run, etc.) was to be played later in the day, but we had checked out the whole island already and were ready to get back to the suburbs and do something more productive with our afternoon than check out the fort again, so we ate lunch under a tree while watching a (possibly equally entertaining) wiffle ball game played by some of the rapidly increasing throng of high schoolers. As soon as I figure out why I'm getting "file too large" errors I'll throw a picture or two up. (Yes, I know, it's because the file is too large.)
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