Let’s get something out of the way here first. I love The Tank. It’s right up there with OP-FOR and Danger Room to me. So I’m happy just to have been noticed and referred to by W. Thomas Smith Jr. — even if it is only to take me to task for this post.
I want […]

I knew there was a reason I bitched every day for a year and a half until my family left Alabama and moved to Texas:
With the state’s weather forecasters not delivering much-needed rain, Gov. Bob Riley on Thursday turned to a higher power. The governor issued a proclamation calling for a week of prayer for […]

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson has a ridiculous “column” at National Review Online today. I put column in scare-quotes because the majority of it is a listing of blurbs from American soldiers blasting the anti-war left. Where do the quotes come from? Patterson’s new book, War Crimes: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy Our […]

The Wall Street Journal (sub. req’d, those mofos) is a bit tardy to the story of Army Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling’s blistering critique (”A failure in generalship,” Armed Forces Journal, May 2007) of America’s generals.
I think, and, according to the WSJ article, junior officers concur, his critique is generally true, especially when it focuses on […]

I love the reaction Jeff over at The Shape of Days had to the Romney-Pet-Strapped-To-The-Car-Roof story:
You know what? Fuck it. I don’t care if everybody loves Mitt Romney. I don’t care if he’s the literal embodiment of the Second Coming. I don’t care if he cures cancer with his mind, or if he promises to […]

Excellent New Yorker journalist George Packer writes an insightful post about his visit to the new Creation Museum in Kentucky:
The simulation serves a primitive ideology known as “young-earth creationism,” which promote the idea that the earth is just over six thousand years old and that the fossil record appeared after the Flood, around 4300 B.C. […]

From Ana Marie Cox now at TIME:
[In 1983, current Republican presidential candidate Mitt] Romney strapped a dog carrier — with the family dog Seamus, an Irish Setter, in it — to the roof of the family station wagon for a twelve hour drive from Boston to Ontario, which the family apparently completed, despite Seamus’s rather […]

A sixteen-year old high school student kicks Bill O’Reilly’s ass on-air by correcting his quotes regarding a sex-and-drugs educational event (of the “Just Say No” sort; not the “Coke Is Awesome — Especially Off Public Restroom Toilet Seats” class I took in high school) at a high school and then quoting a passage from O’Reilly’s […]

free will: The President makes remarks at a rededication ceremony of the Islamic Center of Washington; makes a statement on health care; attends a White House tee ball game.
free will: bush’s schedule for the day
friend: tee ball rocks
friend: i played tee ball for a day
free will: isn’t there a war or two going on?
free will: […]