We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:46:54 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification [Denizenne Commentary - Kat] Part I - Connections: It Starts With Thanks Giving In A Kindergarten Class A few years ago, I used to watch a program called "Connections" on PBS. I know, shocking, something worth watching on PBS besides re-runs of the Three Tenors, but I digress. The program was about the connections between seemingly unconnected moments in history, people and inventions that led to other important, world changing moments, people and inventions. I liked it because I'm a history nut and because I am an analyst at heart. I like to connect the dots. You could, I suppose,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:19:19 -0600 ...does his best writing when pickled... Dill or gherkin? And how does an inlander get *briny*? ...we need to be mean to the Sassenachs, too! *ditching Brit and Gael genes and shoving French, Spanish and Shinnecock DNA to foreground while donning Romany accessories* ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66896 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66896 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:09:40 -0600 Well, *this* thread has some great lines in it, anyway. JTG is like Ernie Hemingway... does his best writing when pickled... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66890 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66890 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:39:26 -0600 Well, let us have no intrafamilial mutual Celtic poo-flinging! Where are Boqui, and SangerM, to act as neutral referees, now that we need them? Oh, yeah, we need to be mean to the Sassenachs, too! Tuttle? Are ye there? Pppffhhbbthpf! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66889 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66889 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:42:26 -0600 ...or a swirling toilet, er, wormhole nexus. Well, based on current company, a bunch of BS or a big black hole isn't necessarily odd.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66888 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66888 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:43:32 -0600 Living on a right little tight little island, next to a wrong littler boggy island, and being of an intelligent, bumptious, and disputatious nature, might cause one to make all sorts of trouble, such as crossing the Atlantic Ocean (voluntarily or otherwise) and founding the United States of Americ(a) Ah, just so. And making an appearance in the next installment.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66887 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66887 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:33:39 -0600 'tron gremlins. I thought BCR had wiped them out, like small pox. But, apparently, we have a resistant strain of gremlin. Looks like BCR needs to get hoppin' on bustin' gremlin skulls again. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66886 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66886 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:06:47 -0600 a. . Oh, BTW, what is this truncation thing which sometimes, but not always, makes the last character in a comment vanish? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66885 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66885 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:33:49 -0600 Oh, to get back onto the Original Poster's topic: The Pilgrims came over here to have the religious freedom to whip Baptists and hang Quakers. I own a copy of "Albion's Seed", and have looked into "The Cousins' Wars." Living on a right little tight little island, next to a wrong littler boggy island, and being of an intelligent, bumptious, and disputatious nature, might cause one to make all sorts of trouble, such as crossing the Atlantic Ocean (voluntarily or otherwise) and founding the United States of Americ http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66884 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66884 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:24:09 -0600 Huh? I had to start over three times. Just kidding. Well written post and I can't wait for your next installment. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66883 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66883 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:32:49 -0600 Well, when I was a kid, young lady, I remember being in my eighth-grade American History class, in which we learned about things like what happened in 1763, with the end of the French and Indian War, and about the Missouri Compromise, and the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. I was sitting there one fine afternoon when the PA system went live and the Warde- uhh Principal's voice came on and announced that Jack Kennedy had just been shot dead. So, yep, I was in American History class when I heard that Jack got shot. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66882 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66882 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:55:59 -0600 ...or a swirling toilet, er, wormhole nexus. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66881 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66881 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:16:09 -0600 I do not digress...I go in concentric circles. Like a bulls eye. LOL http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66878 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66878 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:40:28 -0600 Connections - Yeeeaaayy! Long Time fan of Burke's genius in threading all common threads. My direct connection to Castle Argghhh!!!, I blame on The Brazilian Army. Back when I was still flogging boom-boom thingies 'round the world, The Brazilian Army was looking for M-82 Primers. In an effort to find alternate sources for them, I googled the little critter. Lo and behold this funny little budding page called thedonovan.com popped-up. I immediately got hooked lurking its self depracating style or Milblogging. And as they say: The rest is history. Blame it on Rio http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66877 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66877 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:10:55 -0600 Ha, ha. Someone else got hit with the verbosity tag. Glee. Say it with me, Kat, 'Brevity is for the weak.' I started hiding them below the fold, Kat. It's just been a real long time since I did a long one, a truly long one. Also been a while I did a IPB or anything. Ooops. And C'pn H nails it. I tend to get bogged down in digressions. Maybe working without an outline isn't such a good thing. It's a miracle I'm even remotely intelligible.(I heard that, Unka Bill!) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66876 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66876 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:09:09 -0600 Heh...of everything I wrote, that one line got all the attention and comments. Guess I'll have to be snarky a little more to get you're all's attention. But maybe I'll move it down a bit so you get some more of the post. Or not. ;) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66869 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66869 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:38:27 -0600 Geez, by the time I got down here, I fergot why I dropped in to comment. Oh, yeah. "Short attention spans." Ummmmm -- anybody recall what it was I was gonna *say* about it? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66866 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66866 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:58:16 -0600 Dissertations? Digressions! Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66861 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66861 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:55:23 -0600 Oooh, inter-Denizen poo-flinging! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66850 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66850 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:37:42 -0600 Ry's longer sometimes. And he doesn't hide his below the fold. ppphhhttt http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66849 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66849 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:30:21 -0600 I admit I have a short attention span, but I do appreciate the links RE: James Burke. I too, watched every episode of Connections. Anyway, ry's dissertations are almost as long as Kat's... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66843 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66843 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:31:55 -0600 Maybe I should have said "short time to read" during Morning coffee, lunch and afternoon break? LOL http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66842 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66842 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:31:23 -0600 I *did not* say you all had short attention spans. Calumny! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66840 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66840 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:25:33 -0600 Thank you, Michael. I did love that program and these links are great. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66837 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66837 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:51:36 -0600 KnowledgeWeb. You, and other Denizen(ne)s [and long-time lurkers like me...] would probably also like to check out Burke's latest book: "American Connections - The Founding Fathers, Networked"]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66836 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/connections_tha.html#comment-66836 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:30:21 -0600