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 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:06:35 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Heh. Just ask Bill. Sara Teasdale wrote: When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange - my youth. Though perhaps this is more apt for the subject: It is time to be old, To take in sail:-- The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal round, And said: 'No more! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs: no more invent, Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There's not... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html Thu, 15 May 2008 11:41:43 -0600 Cap'n, Tho I'll follow ye soon, I wish ye the best, those fair winds an' all. I wish ye and warm day, a full glass of guinness and a fair lass to serve it! I also wish ye yet another o'renight in Cubi...and may you're better half ne'er hear of it!! Good on ya sir, I salute you! DS http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73157 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73157 Fri, 16 May 2008 18:04:09 -0600 People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening. Obviously, Jack Handey never met Lex.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73108 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73108 Fri, 16 May 2008 05:42:17 -0600 He called me perspicacious!!! Oh, the excitement!! I can't bear it!! *swoon* :D http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73106 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73106 Fri, 16 May 2008 00:19:44 -0600 Dang, Lex, as I think I mentioned on your blog a time or two, if I were President, and had really good blackmail data about everybody in Congress, you'd be an Admiral. _Vice_ Admiral, Cujo. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73104 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73104 Thu, 15 May 2008 23:01:32 -0600 I'll thank John for his kindness, and FbL for her perspicacity, and send the rest of you to the engine room for some relative bearing grease. But thanks. It's been a long, strange trip. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73101 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73101 Thu, 15 May 2008 21:09:24 -0600 *heeheehee* JMH has been stirring up things over at my place, too. The entirety of his response to my post about Lex's retirement?: "Glue factory!" *rolling eyes* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73092 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73092 Thu, 15 May 2008 17:06:42 -0600 I'm with JMH on this one. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73088 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73088 Thu, 15 May 2008 15:57:17 -0600 Squid jokes are always apropos and tasty. Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73087 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73087 Thu, 15 May 2008 15:55:39 -0600 When Lex reads that, there won't be any room left in the building... Heh. As I noted, he's not the only person who I'd like to praise online, he's just the one retiring today. You'll get yours, in time... as will certain other folks 'round these parts. ;)]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73086 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73086 Thu, 15 May 2008 15:26:19 -0600 Neptunus Lex, Departing. So a squid joke would be pretty tasteless right about now. Hope I still *remember* it tomorrow...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73082 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/on_letting_go_o.html#comment-73082 Thu, 15 May 2008 13:17:39 -0600