Happy Birthday: All the best to the USMC on its birthday. One of you Marines raise a glass in honor of the Corps for me.

Gilbert and Sullivan and Death (additional Friday lyrics): I had some good (if spooky) responses to my request for contemporary songs about ...

Friday Lyrics Joseph asked for contemporary songs about death . Since today is Friday, may I offer an old favorite : Spend all your time wai...

Cutting Buffalo: Here's a video my wife thought you'd enjoy. The cool thing is that the horse is doing all the work. The rider, as ...

What Love Is I still recall the dress I wore to my first dance. It was black with wild roses – pink ones - on it. The empire waistline tied ...

Singing About Death - Reading one of Mark Steyn's recent articles - including a little rant on pop lyrics - I was thinking about songs ...

Iraq, By The Numbers From the San Diego Union Tribune : To all those who said the “surge” in U.S. forces in Iraq was doomed to fail, a look ...

Afghan Wars, Strategic Necessity, Iraq - Rereading The Great Game : I've been a little preoccupied lately, but I did find time this week...

Read This: Here is a French philosopher who actually has something to say.

Can't Trust Women: Turn your back on them for a few months, and you start getting emails asking if they can't please just go buy a l...

Another Great Moment in Headline Writing: "Japan Ends Naval Mission in Afghanistan."

Almost forgot: Happy Halloween. Hope you got some treats.

EXCLUSIVE: Col. Boylan Apologizes Abjectly To Glenn Greenwald!!!! From: "Boylan, Steven COL MNF-I CMD GRP CG PAO" To: ggreenwald@s...

Marines Declare War: ...on garbage . Ramadi must be a pretty quiet posting these days.

Astroturfing, Again: IVAW is still at it .

On the Children of War: Cassandra asks a hard question : What do we owe the children of our dead? The answer seems self-evident; and the s...

Oof! Talk about a beating . Man alive. Nobody likes being on the wrong side of serious security arrangements. We've got Ugandans here ...

Running Man: Wretchard asks how far you can run without a support structure. The answer really depends on who "you" are, and whe...

Wow: It's not often that a post manages to be both patronizing and right-on . Get some, girl.

Diplomatic Contractors: I'm fascinated by this concept. I'm accustomed to military contractors, being one myself; but watching Stat...