Lucky Canadians! Labatt Blue is sending Canadian troops in combat zones free beer! Unfortunately, American soldiers in combat zones are restricted from consuming alcohol.
At least no country has established a military brothel yet, as far as I know.
[Hotel Tango: The Torch, a Canadian milblog]

The Communication Workers of America have just released a new report (PDF) examining Internet connection speeds around the United States. The study finds that the U.S. is trailing other nations in connection speed — which seems odd considering the U.S. built the Internet.

You can also search for your zip code’s average connection speed with a […]

Okay, so here’s where my writing nerdiness comes out. (Even if you can’t tell from the quality of my writing on this blog.)
Off the Kuff has a post discussing his belief that “they” and “their” should be accepted as valid, gender-neutral forms of singular pronouns. In responding to grammarians’ dislike of such a proposal, Kuff […]

Tom Cruise and his production company have been barred from filming scenes at German military sites:
Germany has banned the makers of Tom Cruise’s new movie from filming at military sites in the country because the actor is a Scientologist.
The German defence ministry said Cruise has “publicly professed to being a member of the Scientology […]

My common-law wife’s mother, Glenda Wolin, won a best column-writing award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists:
Glenda Wolin, an assistant city editor and online columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, has earned first-place honors from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for her column, The Ranchwoman.”This is incredible,” said Dan Balcar, Express-News senior […]

According to Mingle2, a Web site that will review your blog and apply an MPAA rating to it:

To get this rating, all I had to do was use the word “dick” once — and I’m pretty sure I’ve used worse than that on this blog. Whatev.
[Hotel Tango: D-Ring: Where the military and new media collide]

I’m just going to lift John’s entire post on OP-FOR regarding a piece posted today by Gen. David Kilcullen, Senior Counterinsurgency Adviser, Multi-National Force–Iraq, on the Small Wars Journal Blog:

Via Small Wars Journal:
I’ve spent much of the last six weeks out on the ground, working with Iraqi and U.S. combat units, civilian reconstruction teams, Iraqi […]

There’s a surprising column in Sunday’s The New York Times detailing the power corporate bosses have over government officials in China.
David Barboza recounts his experiences of being held hostage by factory bosses and realizing Chinese officials had no power to free him:
AS an American journalist based in China, I knew there was a good chance […]

And this is the rest of the story:

[Hotel Tango: Monday Night Poker Host Keith]

Two great ads have appeared in recent weeks pointing out the harm caused to our country and our fellow citizens by continuing to follow the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue” policy and the failure of our government to yet provide hate-crimes protection to the GLBT community, respectively.
[Hotel Tango: Sam Smoot]