Blogging has been light, if anyone is there to notice.  I have been granted extended leave from the Institute for a dose of Danish therapy.  Two weeks in Denmark would be great therapy for anyone, but it is especially so for the Directrix and the Juvies to spend time with their relations.  I am not sure whether it is my inefficiency with the language, but events in Lebanon are not as front burner as I imagine they are back home.  Indeed, people here seem more worked up about the Tour de France. 

For that reason, some one is going to have to explain the concept of proportionate response to me.  I just finished a column on the subject by Professor Bainbridge; it seems to be the rage.  In my first post, I mentioned some of the eerie similarities between public attitudes toward the War on Terror and the war with Hitler.  I wonder whether I am witnessing my generation's version of the Phony War or Sitzkrieg.  Indeed, if I recall, the concept of disproportionate response was what prevented France from challenging Germany's remilitariztion of the Rhineland.  I am sure it would have been a great comfort to that generation that France's failure to act then would be approved by sensible people today.