Who is this handsome man?

It's Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Handsome lad, isn't he? You can see this picture in the Yankee Doodle Tavern at the Palmer Square Hotel in Princeton NJ. Everytime I visit, it takes all my will not to smother it with kisses. Not a good idea in the oh-so proper Princeton. Princeton's colors may be orange and black, but it is a blue town in a blue state. You can imagine how the sight of the Rum-meister can pick up a girl's spirits after a day spent among the libs. The Bourbon Old Fashioneds at the bar don't hurt either. Behind the bar is a wonderful Norman Rockwell mural of Yankee Doodle Dandy and at one end of the room there's a fireplace big enough to stand in. And Rummy as a young man. Me and Midge Decter, our hearts belong to Rummy.

I started this Rummy rant for another reason. Listen to his response to a reporter about Chuck Hagel's recent quagmire pontifications. (From the 8/23 DOD press conference.)

Q And what do you say to Senator Chuck Hagel, a prominent Republican, Vietnam War vet, who over the weekend compared what's going on in Iraq now to the Vietnam War?

SEC. RUMSFELD: The differences are so notable that it would take too long to list them.

Rummy strikes again.