Personally, I think that the largest office building in the world being named for Ronald Reagan is quite appropriate. He seems to have been the first to initiate a policy of "Borrow and Spend," leaving it to the future to pay the bills, and the US is going to need a lot of office space to write the checks when the payoff is due.

LH, the scalp hunting in the SW was intended to reduce the number of raids by the Apaches and others by reducing their population. Just like poisoning coyotes and other pesky varmints. And naturally they got paid for children's scalps as well as adults (although less, of course) because, as I'm sure you're aware, "nits breed lice." Now who was it that said that...an Englishman, I seem to remember....

Oh well, in the words of an eminent churchman, "Kill them all. God will know His own."

I saw a picture of the statue of Sadam Hussein on horseback -- ugly thing, that. But the horse was rearing on his back legs! A quarter pount of C4 at the front of each leg, a couple of sandbags each, and POWEE! the statue falls neatly forward, taking a header. Geez, those rearing horse statues are inherently unstable, all the weights to the rear -- blow the legs behind and Saddam falls on his butt. Either way, you point out he's no horseman....

I must be in a pretty pessimistic mood today.