Heh. The Onion takes the media’s “disgruntled soldier” meme and does it one better – Call Of Duty 2 Gamer Wonders If War Is Worth Dying 79 Times For: “After weeks of fighting for every pixel of ground and seeing…
I’m a bit late in bringing this up, but it looks as if Willis, with the help of Michael Yon, will be attempting to bring the story of Deuce Four‘s days in Iraq to the big screen. Good to see…
A coworker of mine forwarded me a link to a photo montage from this year’s air show at Edwards Air Force Base. It features the first picture of an F-22 with the missile bays open evertaken in public, among many…
I’m always left to wonder if anyone, anyone pays attention to SciFi movies as “cautionary tales”. For instance, while Tetra Vaal is cool in concept, in practice such a system practically reeks of Terminator 2. Yes, let’s put weapons into…
There are quite a few odd corners of this great world of ours, filled with all sorts of strange sights. Michael J. Totten has had the great fortune of seeing quite a few of those sites, many of which lie…
I was listening to Bill Kristol on Fresh Air last night, and during the course of Terry Gross’ interview of Kristol, he said something to the effect of “We want to get Iraq to a place where it’s not a…
For a mere £5 million, you could own a Cold War-era British underground city. The city was built to house the Prime Minister and around 4,000 staffers in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack. A few pictures are available…
Much has been made in the Right-leaning blogosphere about the recently-translated letter from Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s #2 man to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, head of al Qaeda in Iraq. The letter, while interesting, tells only half of…
It’s a simple recipe, really: take a story about military-trained dolphins being released by Hurricane Katrina. Add a splash of geek irreverence, start the discussion thread off with this comment: Sound a little fishy to me. What could be the…
The ULTRA AP – looks like someone in the military has been watching Batman Begins.
