July 31, 2006
Last week, I wrote two posts on the differences between nation building and nation rebuilding. Toward the end of the second, I said this: I think that a large portion of the problem here is not that we don't have...
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July 28, 2006
...and he is us. Once again, it apears that someone in the service has used the incredibly stupid "don't ask, don't tell" policy as a weapon against another service memeber, resulting in the army forcing out someone that they need....
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July 27, 2006
A brief conversation in the car today: Me: I don't know why, but for some reason grusome threats work with kids. They believe them less the more grusome they get, but they listen a lot more. My mom: Yeah, I...
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July 25, 2006
After following the links back and watching the video clip of Santorum's comment, I discovered something that was almost shocking: he actually said other things in response to the same comment that were even dumber.
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After following the links back and watching the video clip of Santorum's comment, I discovered something that was almost shocking: he actually said other things in response to the same comment that were even dumber.
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July 24, 2006
Joseph responded to my last post with a thought-provoking comment on my blog, and added a brief post to his own noting the exchange and wondering if there is any neutral third party who might want to weigh in on...
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My wife, an army physician, was deployed in Afghanistan from July, 2004 through April, 2005. While there, she learned quite a bit about the medical situation in the country. In this post, I'm going to draw heavily from her experiences and pictures.
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July 21, 2006
Take a look at this post over at Stranger Fruit. The Santorum quote is good, but the outfit Santorum is wearing in the picture is better. He looks like a refugee from a bad 80s Televangelism special....
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The paperwork for deployment isn't limited to the soldier, either. Us spouses get to do some too. Yesterday, I had to update what is probably the most disturbing form I've ever encountered: the "spouse preference form."
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July 20, 2006
Over at The Loom, Carl Zimmer tells us that a group of academics and a Conneticut biotech company are about to begin sequencing the Neandertal genome. Sequencing the Neandertal genome gets them all of the possible "Damn, that's cool!" points,...
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