The stage is set and the show is about to begin. The actors have taken their places. But this isn’t some elaborate performance at a Center City theater. There are no curtain calls, costumes or high-priced tickets.
Every year at this time, wineries around the world celebrate the end of the grape harvest. In Italy, it is called vendemmia, the French name it vendage and, in Spain, it is vendimia. The grapes have been picked and sorted and will be turned into every conceivable type of wine.
I see where Donald Rumsfeld is puzzled why the media is making a big deal about violence in Iraq.
According to Rumsfeld, there’s not a whole lot of difference between Fallujah and our own big cities. Some people get killed in Fallujah, some people get killed in…