Okay, so you’ve probably heard about the “gay bomb,” which when deployed is supposed to spark homosexual lust within the enemy ranks, thus destroying unit cohesion and allowing the U.S. (or whatever force uses the weapon) to destroy said enemy.
Well, now there’s the ‘Ennui Gas,’ “a nerve agent that overwhelms its victims with sudden philosophical [...]

Ross Douthat penned an interesting column in a recent issue of the Altantic saying that post-9/11 America has, culturally, returned to the paranoid style of the 1970s.
Conservatives such as Noonan hoped that 9/11 would bring back the best of the 1940s and ’50s, playing Pearl Harbor to a new era of patriotism and solidarity. Many [...]

I think this is great.
Army Gen. David Petraeus, the four-star general who led troops in Iraq for the past year, will be nominated by President Bush to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.
Gates said he expected Petraeus to make the shift in late summer or early fall. [...]

Really? Is this what we’ve come to?
You (Obama) lifted your finger to your face, and you, you know, “scratched.” Sure, it might have looked innocent enough. Faces itch sometimes, whatever. But we know what you were doing. We know why you used your middle finger to do it. Mr. Obama, you Flipped the Bird. [...]

Hamas, on the State Department Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization list, has all but endorsed Senator Obama . . .
–The Tank, a National Review Online blog
Well, we knew this would come around sooner or later. The primary isn’t even over yet! Can’t these Hamas guys at least hold out until the convention, like Hillary’s doing?
But, seriously, [...]

The U.S. Air Force’s first stealth fighter and one of the services’ most attractive planes (especially if you’ve ever seen one fly overhead), the F-117 Nighthawk, will be retired April 21st.
[Danger Room]

. . . because I was on the pot.
(Taking a shit, that is.)

Here we go again.
The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to serve in Iraq next year and says it will soon start identifying prime candidates for jobs at the Baghdad embassy and outlying provinces, according to a cable obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
A similar call-up notice last year caused an [...]

This is stupid.
Abigail Noel Fisher, 18, a white senior at Stephen F. Austin High School in Sugar Land is suing the University of Texas System, accusing the university of illegally using race in determining admissions.
Fisher is in the top 12 percent of her graduating class, not enough to gain her automatic admission under the state’s [...]

I know at least some of my readers visit this blog because they’re interested in writing. Granted, the act of writing isn’t something I write about much here — if at all in recent years. Nonetheless, I wanted to point those who do read this blog for that purpose to a friend’s blog, Thirty One [...]