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Posts from April 2007

Reality-Building

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates isn’t happy with whoever leaked the story about troop deployment extensions. Premature, he says:

Some very thoughtless person in this building made the unilateral decision [Tuesday] to deny the Army the opportunity to notify unit commanders who could then talk to their troops 48 hours before we made a [...]


Rip Van Winkle Surveys The State of Basketball

It’s Sunday. I’m sitting here in front of the Mavs / Spurs game. I haven’t watched basketball in a long time, I think because of the trauma of seeing the Stockton/Malone-era Jazz, a team I cared passionately about, lose championship after championship to Jordan and the damn Bulls (may the curse of the Flying Spaghetti [...]