Or is it the Army that's too small? In any case ( Read more... )

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Today was a lot of fun ( Read more... )

Well, we get one rightLeaving aside that the one case of flag burning in recent years that I know of was a drunk frat boy ( Read more... )

A year ago today I left for Army Basic Training. In 2 1/2 weeks, I'll be on active duty for deployment.

So.... yeah.

I'm still mostly glad I did it.
It just seems like less of a game now.

Firstly- how much does Italy pay their refs? Seriously.

Secondly- The Arizona Republic ran this cartoon a few days ago:


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A voice said, "Look me in the stars"
And tell me truely, men of earth
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not worth the price of birth?

~ Robert Frost

The world has reached a new height of irony. I just read a news item from a while ago.

You remember "Farenheit 451", by Ray Bradbury, yes ( Read more... )

It was only a matter of time, and it's finally done: Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq last night. This ends the threat of literally the biggest target since Saddam. Makes me feel one hell of a lot safer going over there ( Read more... )

Via an embedded reporter in Iraq, I found this quote from a "high ranking Iraq officer ( Read more... )