Ted Kennedy has passed.
Month: August 2009
I want to flag this now, and I'll have more to say about it in the next day or two. High points so far for me:Modeling an elected House of.
Jesus; did they build Citi Field on an ancient Indian burial ground or something?Johan Santana needs surgery for bone chips in his left elbow and the star pitcher is out.
This isn't that unusual; I've heard many Army officers make similar jokes in the past. I think the AFA whining reveals a certain insecurity, though:A soldier is trudging through the muck in the midst of a downpour with a 60-pound rucksack on his back. ‘This...
Too cute not to post...
Too cute not to post...
Hi. My name is Dick Cheney, and I don't understand basic causal reasoning. See Spencer for the details, but Cheney's contention on the effectiveness of torture basically amounts to this: If we torture a dude, and at some later date he reveals information, we have...
With a medium sized blog and an openly available e-mail address, I find myself subscribed to more than a few odd mailing lists. For example, I get regular e-mail from.
With due respect to the notion of an "armed peace corps," what happens when either a) a peace-keeping situation deteriorates into real war, or b) a real war deteriorates to.
This post, on the prospect for Russian military reform, is absolutely fabulous. A taste:These reforms amount to the complete destruction of Russia’s mass-mobilization military, a legacy of the Soviet army. Such a change was completely anathema to the previous generation of Russian generals, who continued...
Note to self: Do not ever piss off John Holbo
Russia's newest nuclear ballistic missile submarine will be named... wait for it.... wait for it.... the St. Nicholas. H/t Chet.