Hello From Santa Barbara

Still on vacation in Santa Barbara, a beautiful place but the pace here is way slower than I would like to be. The great part - Santa Barbara is under two hours from Los Angeles and we were able to drive down to L.A. and visited the spectacular Getty Museum and to Malibu to visit the Getty Villa. The rest of he pictures belong to our trip to the Court House and Old Mission.

When Kids Don't Listen to Their Parents

"To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."

George Bush Sr, in A World Transformed, 1998