Lady hairdresser who cut my hair today:
“I really like bald men. Just can’t wait until my husband’s goes, nice and smooth!”
“Yah, right, I don’t believe you. Women don’t like bald men.”
“Now who told you that?”
“Ah, well, according to the polls in magazines…”
“Well, you’re wrong. Lots of women like bald men.”
I wonder if they pay her extra to tell her clients that?
Weather is snow again, very old, especially when you’re on bike and the snow hits the bald head… As no one shovels and you have to get around in the slush by bike, everything you have gets laden with mud and salt. The coat is a mangy mess. I must admit, this waiting business is making my crabby.
The Gulf War: Bush says he “won’t be pushed ” into an early ground war. The bombing goes on, relentlessly, thousands of sorties still a day. You have to consider what can be left after all this—but it reminds me of the relentless pounding of artillery from the British before the Somme Offensive in 1916. After which the attackers found there was a helluva lot left. Could the same situation exist now? I wouldn’t be at all surprised. It seems quite clear now that the allies’ hope foe an efficient air campaign has not materialized as optimistically as expected. There will probably come a point when more bombing really won’t do much good—until an actual attack, when troops now hiding will be forced to come out. That’s when air superiority will tell a more grisly tale.
Many Arabs now have become supporters of Saddam in this war, even if their governments are not. You have to wonder—would these Arabs really like to be under a government of a ruthless and cutthroat dictator like Saddam?
—Feb. 12, 1991, Cambridge, England
OtD 