Snow in Baghdad: When I flew in last year, we got rain even though it almost never rains in the summer. People remarked that Iraq must love...

Greedy Geezers . These sorts of shenanigans are what I'm talking about: On the eve of a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Indi...

Dawson County, GA: Today was my last day home; bright and early tomorrow I return to the fray. I spent the last two days here doing some im...

Lose All The Weight You Want for $500: Plus, you get to keep the $500 .

Writing your own epitaph. Or something like that. Blogger Andrew Olmstead was killed in Iraq, and left something behind to be published in c...

Friday Lyrics: Sometimes the right song can cheer me up just by thinking about it. During my first tour overseas, at the worst times, when ...

A Splendid Answer: At Gene Expression , I found a link to Edge , where many scientific and other figures were asked the simple question: Wha...

The Land Without A King: THEN stood the realm in great jeopardy long while, for every lord that was mighty of men made him strong, and many ...

The Great Fall of China. Via Instapundit, this article from the LA Times, in which the World Bank reports that China's economy is smalle...

Christmas Cheer: Via our old friend Dad29 , a pointer to another of the great stories from LawDog : Tactical advice for those intending to r...

The Arvel at Yuletide: Last spring, we held the arvel for my father-in-law . Unsurprisingly, his wife of fifty years did not long survive...

EVANGELICALS AGAINST HUCKABEE To my knowledge, no organization with the above name exists. That is a pity because it should. If, as many p...

Did the botox wear off or something? (warning: view at your own risk) The drudge report posted an unflattering photo of Hillary Clinton this...

A Marine's family and his dog. bthun noticed this story : The family of an Albany Marine killed earlier this year in Iraq will become th...

GREAT WESTERNS Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I LOVE Westerns, be they movies or books. Consequently, I am always on the look...

School is In: A quick Iraq story, to lay over the following email from our old friend JarHeadDad. Last week, LTCOL (Ret.) Oliver North was ...

A True Classic of Heroic Leadership Fiction: Okay, my mind is on fiction tonight and it's all Joel's fault. On my way home last tim...

A Short Ramble on His Dark Materials : Joel's recent post on The Golden Compass and the general webwide chatter about it got me to thin...

Hunting Hyenas: About a week or so ago, I actually got a few hours off during the daylight. I'd seen some hyenas wandering around at ni...

RELIGION AND THE CULTURE The subject of religion has once again taken center stage in the national discourse. One could say that this is uns...