Now I've got that damn song stuck in my head. But it is very funny.
Now I've got that damn song stuck in my head. But it is very funny.
From wounded Army Staff Sgt. Jamie Villafane on being tossed out of his Humvee when Iraqi soldiers, clothed as civilians, hit it with an rocket-propelled grenade: Getting shot at really wasn't that bad. It's the getting shot part that sucked. After being thrown from the Humvee, a wounded Villafane singlehandedly captured four Iraqi soldiers.
The Italian journalist has a piece in Thursday's Wall Street Journal. My favorite part: For Christ's sake, in 1991 the Iraqi army deflated like a pricked balloon. It disintegrated so quickly, so easily, that even I captured four of its soldiers. I was behind a dune in the Saudi desert, all alone. Four skeletal creatures […]
From Rod Dreher over at National Review: "[T]he French are going to go proctological on America in the Security Council this week, leading to a fresh round of pop-cult French-bashing." "Go proctological!" How apt.
Britain's Sunday Mirror is reporting that the Iraqis are trying to get a head start on the imminent war -- by crossing the Kuwaiti border and attempting to surrender to British troops. The motley band of a dozen troops waved the white flag as British paratroopers tested their weapons during a routine exercise. The stunned […]
A little jewel from his latest: The "human shields" are leaving Iraq, disenchanted after discovering that their Iraqi "co-ordinators" wanted to deploy them not at "humanitarian" facilities but at military bases. One fellow said he was used to working with young children and would have preferred to be deployed at an orphanage. Pity the poor […]
From National Review's Jack Dunphy: [L]ike a favorite hymn learned in childhood, the words are as comforting as they are familiar: "The judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, accordingly, is reversed."
Anti-idiotarian cartoonists Cox and Forkum have launched their new blog -- head over and check it out. I'm going to add it to the list on the left eventually. I seriously need to catch up on my Web Log Links.
Madonna, author of "Sex," signs deal to write childrens books. "It will be a story with a moral," said Majorie Scardino, the chief executive of Penguin's parent company Pearson. Exactly which moral Madonna has finally discovered was not revealed.
The VikingPundit has reworked one of my favorite Monty Python skits to give it a more up-to-date/current events feel. Check it out.