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Watching David Hare's dramatization of the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq last night at ACT, we were reminded of an email exchange we had that summer with an old college friend. Our friend, a Brit, was at the time starting her career as a history teacher, and if we recall correctly, we wrote her something to the effect of, "You know why World War I started, you know why World War II or Vietnam or Korea or the Falklands started...but in ten years, when your students ask you, 'Why did we invade Iraq?', what are you going to say? What's the explanation going to be?" Her despairing response: "They already are asking. And I don't know what to tell them."

In honor of Veterans Day, the Huskies played like the French army in today's loss to Stanford.

We'd never seen the quotable George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House before; all we had to go on was the Intiman's postcard copy, which informed us that it is an "affectionate, Chekhovian portrait of England before the World War I."

Motorhead is coming to the Showbox on Sunday. Oh my God (or OMG if you are transcribing this entry into IM)! They are one of the truly defining bands of metal and unlike Metallica they never changed their sound to adult-contemporary. Their songs have guitars the way that guitars were meant to be played (especially if the guitars were naughty in a past life). This is metal and after the show you'll be unable to not make the metal sign with your fingers. Come on, they wrote a concept album about World War I. That is metal.