my internet friend and sometimes sounding board Pascal Fervor.

pascal left the blogroll a while back, not due to my wanting to disrespect him, but because I feared he had quit blogging, his blog hadn’t been updated in so long.

He’s back, and mad as hell, and intends not to take it anymore.

A decenter human has rarely ever trod shoe leather, and I enjoy our conversations immensely. Now, I’m a plainspoken man, and I tend only to embellish where it improves the humor; Pascal, on the other hand, has a rainman-like grasp of the history and nuances of eevrything he discusses. You have to wade through a virtual ocean of frankly unassailable facts to find the shell that holds the oyster in which he has hidden the pearl of his wisdom. it’s worth the wade. If you find you like history, especially, Pascal is your guy, because he knows it as though he lived it himself. No, he’s not THAT old.

Just one thing, my dear friend: Decaf. Please, decaf.