llamas, transport of the future

I had a very, very wacky dream the other night. Generally my wacky dreams have a fairly low level of wackiness and a high enough level of reality, but this one, well... the key wackiness factor was the llama. ( But I'm getting ahead of myself: here's as much as I can recall. )

failing to learn history's lessons

I'm reading a Rolling Stone article I bookmarked a while back, The Great Iraq Swindle. Just now, on page two, I find this gem:

...Scott Custer and Mike Battles...decided to form a security company called Custer Battles and make it big in Iraq.

Now, if you said "Custer Battles" to me, I'd be thinking Little Bighorn, and, not to bend things too much for the purposes of my point, one of the best-known failures of the US Military fighting an inferior force.

And really, I don't care that this has nothing to do with anything other than coincidence. I'm just amazed at the coincidence itself.