View From the Bushes

I finished Lonesome Dove. I would recommend it to anyone. It was great -- definitely in the 90th percentile of books I've read. My one complaint would be that at 945 pages you would expect that there wouldn't be any hanging threads, but as it was, the book really needed an epilogue, something like the one at the end of "Animal House:"

Newt went on to become Govenor of Montana
Clara ghost wrote War and Peace
Po Campo founded a religion

I guess there's a sequel and two prequels, so now that I'm hooked, I'll probably have to read those as well, eventually. I told my wife she should read it, but she immediately saw it as a ploy to get Harry Potter all to myself. I assured her that she could read LD after HP6.

As far as the tour goes, it's starting to look unlucky to wear any of the jerseys. Both yellow jersey wearers other than Lance are out of the race. Tom Boonen, the green jersey holder, dropped out yesterday and Valverde, the white jersey, dropped out today. This means that 1/7th of all of the people who have dropped out so far have been jersey wearers. I have no way of checking, but I imagine that's as high as it's ever been.

Finally in the happy link category, China has threatened to use nukes against us if we get involved in any war they are having with Taiwan.

HP6 tonight, I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl
Ross