I don’t know if y’all have seen (and, presumably, laughed uproariously at) Chariman Dean’s recent comedy bitspeech, but it reads like pure comedy gold. Had me in stitches, actually: “Karl Rove says that the Republicans are going to win on…
What strange times we live in, when admitted Socialists can manage to outflank ostensible “conservatives” to their starboard side. Witness Christopher Hitchens rake Francis Fukuyama over the rhetorical coals and marvel that “Right” and “Left” no longer mean anything; instead,…
Those of you that enjoyed HBO’s miniseries Band of Brothers will likely be pleased by the following news: the crew behind BoB is currently working on a similar miniseries that encompasses the Pacific theater during World War II entitled The…
Dr. Sanity has a very interesting piece taking critics of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy to task for short-term thinking. To wit: The kind of major shift in US foreign policy that Bush has initiated may actually take decades to…
Hanson has to be one of my favorite historians of relatively recent vintage – his books and columns are interesting, insightful and almost always concerned with the long view of current events. He’s just returned from a trip to Iraq,…
Oy. This can not end well: Vice President shoots, wounds hunting companion over the weekend. I can imagine The Daily Show, The Tonight Show, SNL, The Colbert Report, etc. having a field day with this story. For all you aspiring…
Once again, Sci Fi proves invaluable in envisioning the future: FAST G1 – facial protection for the U.S. Armed Forces. Helghast, anyone?
I routinely support our military in its endeavors, but I, too, must protest at their fleecing of Michael Yon. Memo to the Army: Yon was one of the best war correspondents of the past 4 years and brought a lot…
During the 2004 election cycle, Lefty bloggers of varying stripes took to labeling Rightwing pundits (such as myself) “chickenhawks” and, less-commonly, the “101st Fightin’ Keyboardists”. Their claim was that, if we supporters of the WoT were to be non-hypocritical, we…
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…
