Sic transit idiotic ideas
We note, with general approval, the demise of the Hummer. The NYTimes tells us today that the deal is falling through to sell the beast to China, so GM will let the brand die. Yes, I know, it is every...
View ArticleMcChrystal Fired: Good.
I have no bone to pick with General Stanley McChrystal — I’m positive he’s a nice guy, good general, probably misunderstood. But after the Rolling Stone interview that showed members of his staff...
View ArticleTSA, the Military, nail clippers and an urban myth
OK, I got caught by this one. For a few minutes anyway. But, seriously, all the red flags are there. So, right up front: The TSA has never banned nail clippers (or so it says. I recall they did, in...
View ArticleSupport the troops but don’t support the 9-11 troops?
OK, the Republicans in the Senate have just blocked a bill (click) to help the people who were injured on 9-11 by breathing the contaminated air from the disaster which, let us not forget, the Bush-era...
View ArticleChaffetz is shocked! Shocked that there is fraud in Afghanistan!
Man oh man, I can’t criticize what he’s saying, but you have to wonder where Rep. Jason Chaffetz has been for the last decade or so. Not in the House of Representatives that long, but he reads the...
View ArticleTo cut defense spending, quit buying wars
I’ve got a kid — one of my son’s gang of high school pals, they are all our kids — flying back seat in an F-15 in Afghanistan right now. He’s using a $50 million piece of equipment to try to blow up...
View ArticleMitt: Put up your sons, or shut up
Short and sweet: I am beyond sick and tired of Mitt Romney blathering on about how the US needs to stay in Afghanistan, keep up the good fight, end the war gallantly, blah blah blah… This is epitomized...
View ArticleWhich saved the lost hiker, God or Poetry?
Interesting debate among commenters here (click) on a story we ran about a hiker who broke her leg and survived four days in the wilderness reciting poetry, playing mind games and praying. The headline...
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