Ever wonder what being Tasered felt like or sounded like? Check out this video obtained by PETA from the U.S. Air Force showing the effects of Tasers on pigs.
Awful.
[Hotel Tango: Danger Room]

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It’s true: Blue October’s “Breakfast After 10” is probably my favorite breakup song ever.
White kitchen walls with a thousand windows
Turn on Winston in the den
And I’m still asleep but I can hear the piano
When you make breakfast after 10
And I smell the coffee on your fingers
I still smell the perfume in the bed
The crushed linen […]

[Hotel Tango: Mary]

This is an interesting tidbit that validates my happiness at having such a great relationship with my parents:
So you’re between the ages of 13 and 24. What makes you happy? A worried, weary parent might imagine the answer to sound something like this: Sex, drugs, a little rock ‘n’ roll. Maybe some cash, or at […]

The sounds of these guys (and what I thought were KC-135 medevacs but may have actually been C-9s) on the runway across the street and golf course from my house on Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. sang me to sleep at night:

The Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters are currently deployed to St. Croix in the […]

I don’t do the Sunday funnies (that’s Brains & Eggs‘ department), but it sort of seems like it today:

[Hotel Tango: Mary, my sister]

[Hotel Tango: Katy]

Great article from The Australian about David Kilcullen, an expert in counterinsurgency and adviser to General Petraeus in Iraq:
. . . [W]hen the invasion of Iraq was being planned, Kilcullen was one of a handful of senior military advisers in the coalition of the willing to voice a dissenting view. “I was one of a […]

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