I managed to pick up John J. Miller's book "Our Oldest Enemy" -- on the U.S. relationship with the perfidious French -- Thursday afternoon at the Union-Tribune's periodic get-rid-of-review-books-for-charity-sale. Conservative books usually last quite awhile, but I was still a little surprised it lasted until late afternoon.

On a related note: Some stinkin' Frenchman apparently stole Halo 2 and is distributing it on the Internet. Those of us buying the game still must wait until Nov. 9.

*UPDATE* A slashdot poster points out that the theft of the French version of Halo 2 is actually no big deal.

I hear in the French version Master Chief surrenders to the Covenant within the first 10 minutes of the game anyway. Problem solved.

So, this is why there are so few French war games.