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Becoming an internet verb

Grodner ['ghr?¶d n3r] (v): 1) To aggressively self-destruct through felony vandalism crossed with a sense of invulnerability and entitlement. 2) To be-prick oneself in public while flashing the victim card.

Ecce.

Victim (Marine Sgt. Mike McNulty) related to P/O that as he walked back to his vehicle, he observed the offender (Chicago lawyer Jay [...]

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Before

The Black Velvet is a traditional concoction made of one part Guinness stout and one part of some lesser drink, such as Mo?

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Elections have consequences

Sometimes to stockholders:

Australia will review its air-combat spending program, which includes a $5.8 billion deal for 24 F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter bombers from Boeing, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today.

The review is being will start “as soon as practicably possible,” a spokesperson for Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said in an e-mail.

Fitzgibbon [...]

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Plus ça change

The soldiers had returned home from a desperate and even existential struggle. Their officers were subjected to a vitriolic smear campaign by members of Congress and allies in the press. Their material needs went uncared for, the soldiers were sent home “without a victory parade or even a statement of thanks for their years [...]

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Wild ride

If you’ve ever wanted know what it was like when your machine broke up around you at five bills – or are just a fan of chaos from order stories in general – then you might as well read about how one Air National Guard pilot found himself doing the Martin-Baker penetration:

Only a [...]

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Choose the most correct answer

Remember filling in the bubbles on those standardized tests? We were sternly abjured to “choose only one answer”, the implication being that while a personal perspective or unique knowledge might render more than one answer plausible, only one was most correct.

The San Diego Tribune carried this AP wire headline today:

’07 deadliest year [...]

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Job search

So, I’ve been doing this networking thing. Emails mostly – blizzards of ‘em – and once a month’s down at a hotel in Mission Bay. The first one was kind of an eye opener: All the guys that I’d graduated high school, college and flight school with? They’re down there too, doing the coat [...]

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Field Manual for Dummies

Got this through the mail, courtesy of Guy. Attribution ugh-known:

FM 3-0 for SAMS Students Table of Contents Introduction

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Semantics

Britain is abandoning the “War on Terror” terminology according to the UK Daily Mail. Sensible enough as far is goes, “terror” is after all only a tactic. We don’t make war on tactics.

The words “war on terror” will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the [...]

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A good craic

Nothing of consequence was accomplished today but that your humble scribe, his number one son and son number one’s best mate from high school years – a citizen of Eire, come hither for the holidays for to escape the falling damps Dublin-way – went a-shooting at the range.

Hizzoner not having had our advantages [...]

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