I'd like to officially welcome two new members to our blogroll. A Silent Cacophony is published by DK, a retired Army officer who lives down in the Eastern Virginia area. He's been writing for about a year or so, and has produced some outstanding work.

Simulated Laughter is one of the homes of A.E. who writes professionally in the area of foreign policy and politics. He keeps a town residence over at Huffinton Post. Maybe if Mr Bu$h had consulted with him we'd have a cornet player instead of a concert pianist as Secretary of State, and people would respect us a bit more. A.E writes on a number of topics and if you read him carefully, you could learn something.