Some lazy Wednesday night blogging... Germany to reduce term of conscription. The anatomy of France's worst humiliation since June 22, 1940. North Korea's 7-0 thrashing at the hands of Portugal was apparently the first full live World Cup match ever shown on North Korean television....
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Huh; seems like things are a bit slow around here. Some linkage:Axe talks Tanks!Think about five things you like about your health care, and five things you don't.African veterans of.
From around the inter-tubes...Dan Nexon vets Stephen Walt's Top Ten Lessons of EmpireMr. Trend rounds up news from Latin AmericaDrezner wonders why Khameinei doesn't seem to have any proxies.I have.
From around the internets:Kris Alexander reminds us that we're well past the stage when we need to worry about a conventional threat from North Korea. Josh Keating notes that the Russian Army is downsizing. I'm curious; why the bump in Obama's approval rating? Torture memos?...
From around the internets...David Axe gives some thought to the Pentagon's image problem in Africa and South America.Lance Mannion unearths some startling facts about the youthful "Barry" Obama.Slyde considers off-season.
Wandering the internets while watching the classy Yankee Stadium farewell...Interesting NYT article on the Naval Academy. Most fascinating bit; Barack Obama beat USNA alumnus John McCain 13-7 in an unscientific.
From about the internets...Efforts to ditch Mitch continue apace. Now with video!Michael Stickings noodles on nationalist kitsch and the GOP.David Greenberg accuses several bloggers, including myself, of being part of the indecent left. A bit more on that later...Spencer is in Afghanistan.Simon Jackman ruminates on...
In an effort not to think about politics, I wasted my day today at Ancestry.com. From father to son:Thomas Farley, b. 1600 Worcester, England (arrived Virginia 1623)John Farley, b. 1648.
Heading out to Great American this afternoon to watch the 60-76 Reds play for pride against the 59-76 Giants. Woo. Hoo. Some links for your pleasure:Loomis recalls Earl Butz, a.
Lazy blogging Friday...This Michael Gordon piece on the "Shia Awakening" is as good as advertised, although Spackerman offers some caveats.David Axe reports that the Iraqi military is increasingly arming itself with high tech American equipment.Axe also ruminates about the Australian contribution (or lack thereof) to...
Some stuff to link to before it slips through the cracks:Erik Loomis talks water policy.Galrahn goes meta.Trend dwells a bit on FARC.David Axe thinks about the Iraqi Navy.Jason Sigger notes.