Mourning Goldfish in the Morning

Mourning the death of his family's last surviving goldfish this morning. "Goldie" - sadly I had a poor imagination for such namings - expired in its barrel overnight, causes suspected to include old age: it was close to 20 years old if a day.

Empires: the Old Addiction

Rick Salutin's thoughts on empires. Which we don't seem quite able to shake yet, even though we probably should.