Torrington, Connecticut Hallelujah. I have WiFi, coffee, cigarettes, and a hangover - in short, life on the road is beginning to take on the familiar trappings of home. So how is the War on Christmas developing? Interestingly, flags in Connecticut today are at half mast; this because, presumably, the state has again had casualties in the real war, the one that republicans started in Iraq. Local television coverage this morning announced another such death; a young Marine was killed in Afghanistan, where we're losing as well, it seems. Also on television, and elsewhere: there's a new war going on in Africa, and since it involves Islamic extremists, needless to say, we'll be involved in some way. There's another war going on here: the Wal-Mart war on American prosperity. Torrington used to be a thriving, prosperous mill town. You can see just how rich this town used to be when you see their magnificent municipal library, an elegant sandstone jewelbox from the nineteenth century. Now, of course, the industry that nourished this prosperity has withered away, and hasn't been replaced. More war talk: Saddam Hussein is to be hanged, having exhausted all of his appeals. How much do you want to bet, gentle reader, that this will be bungled and received in Iraq as an example of victor's justice? And more: as of today, more Americans have been killed in Iraq than died on September 11th. In fact, the only place I can really find that is fighting this War on Christmas is that online citadel of idiocy, skank-bigot Michelle Malkin. The rest of us, I guess, have more important things to do and to worry about than an imaginary war. There are a few real ones going on, after all, and we don't seem to be doing all that well in any of them.