I Should've Known Better
That's me, not that I faced some sort of a moral dilemma but rather my discovery that despite my added years of age, that there were things that should have seemed obvious but as it happened were...well, I should have known better. As the Beatles said in their song, "I never realized a lot of things before." We've all had those things happen, that taking out that one screw before realizing that it held a lot more behind it and now there was no way to get it all back together, or that slip of the tongue that once out you were immediately aware that it was the wrong thing to say. Perhaps I'm having these thoughts because at the moment I feel like crap,* or more politely, feel a bit under the weather. I also had the misfortune to watch a batch of history videos titled "Events That Changed the World," which turned out to be all of the major wars, from Chinese emperors to Napolean (his invasion of Russia cost him 475,000 men and eventually his retreat a