I’m in a particularly hawkish mood today so I invite you to listen to another proud cry from Victor David Hanson‘s eyrie. No, the term isn’t exclusive to eagles, and the Chambers says so.

[The former linked page suffers from that curse of the contemporary Web, tiny font sizes, specifically designed, I suspect, to force us to buy the print versions of articles published online for free. Following a banner from the latter page, I couldn’t help but think that, with a name like that, “Wolf Blitzer” couldn’t be a real person, could he? The photograph is plausible (he looks a bit like a bearded version of Judith’s dad), but I’m not convinced.]