Oktoberfest

Huntsville's annual Oktoberfest celebration will be held at Redstone Arsenal this weekend. Beer and brats galore. Whoo-hoo!

It just so happens that this year's celebration coincides the German elections on September 18. I'm rooting for the CDU candidate for Chancellor, Angela Merkel. If she is elected, she will become the first German Chancellor to have grown up in Communist East Germany. She has promised to reinvigorate the sluggish German economy through a program of tax cuts and a general shift away from socialism, raising the tantalizing prospect that she may become Berlin's own "Iron Lady." Hopefully, we'll soon be saying goodbye to Herr Schroeder.