Pinochle with Pinochet
Captain General Augusto Pinochet is dead: hyperlink. May the Lord God grant him mercy.

Pinochet may have been a monster, but he was our monster. The West's victory in the Cold War, the defeat of the Soviet Union, and the collapse of global Communism were not foregone conclusions in 1973. And the regime of Salvador Allende was not as lily-white as his niece, the author Isabel Allende, would lead you to believe. General Pinochet was a friend to the United States, a valuable ally against Latin American Marxism-Leninism, and, though the "Miracle of Chile," the architect of his own people's brilliant future. The Cold War was won, the monolithic evil of Soviet Communism crushed, only because men like Augusto Pinochet were willing to put the long-term welfare of the free peoples of the world ahead of the sanctity of their own souls. I hope that the Almighty rewards them for their service to His Creation. Rest in peace, General.

And no, my use of the word "Creation" does not suggest any sympathy for Creationism or the cynical, specious Intelligent Design "hypothesis."