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Crazy Week

Published on 14 Oct 2007 at 10:54 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Seven days of insanity.

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Office with a View

Published on 10 Oct 2007 at 7:29 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under Britain, blogs, boobs.

Find out why Theo’s such an earthy guy. Everybody’s favorite Norfolk spud stud in the saddle. And where he’d rather be.

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Why

Published on 8 Oct 2007 at 10:18 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Iraq, blogs, military.

Badger Six re staying on:

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Crazy Week

Published on 7 Oct 2007 at 9:28 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Dr. Sanity, not yet replaced by a machine: Nutsopalooza.
Thought you lived through last week? Not till you read Surber’s Week That Was.

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Field Notes

Published on 30 Sep 2007 at 10:13 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, blogs, military.

Teflon Don and Desert Flier on coming home. Badger Six on mission and command, and staying.

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Week That Was

Published on 29 Sep 2007 at 11:18 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Relive it with Surber.

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Weeks That Were

Published on 22 Sep 2007 at 2:00 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Surber’s Week That Was
Driscoll’s That Was The Week Of That Was The Week That Was
That’s what I’d call a couple of week links. Crazy links here.

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Duststorms in the Rearview

Published on 17 Sep 2007 at 10:19 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, blogs, military.

Teflon Don, Badger Six made it out. On their way home after a long drive to Kuwait:

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Carnival of the Insanities

Published on 16 Sep 2007 at 10:20 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under blogs, pols.

Crazy is as crazy does. Speaking of which, you’d have to be crazy to run for president. Surber rounds up the week’s lunacy on that front.

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Saturday Night Laugh

Published on 15 Sep 2007 at 7:42 pm. 14 Comments.
Filed under blogs, pols.

They’re turning on each other. Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake (can someone please tell what the heck a firedoglake is, anyway? Some kind of warmed-over eastern mysticism? Secret wimmin’s business? It’s got to be something important.) wants Elizabeth Edwards to lay off MoveOn.

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Bush League

Published on 15 Sep 2007 at 8:03 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, blogs.

League of Extraordinary Bloggers meet with Chimpy.

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Carnival of the Insanities

Published on 9 Sep 2007 at 10:18 am. No Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Just when you thought it was safe to be sane.
If that’s too crazy for you, you may want to check Newsbusters weekend captionfest, and Surber’s Week That Was.
Unless you prefer your social and political commentary with a little Sunday morning totty.

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Vote MVDG

Published on 8 Sep 2007 at 10:31 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under blogs.

Michael van der Galien, everyone’s favorite moderately hawkish Dutchman, is aiming for best political blog in Blogger’s Choice, and he wants your vote. Go here to vote for him, or whoever else you like on that list. Iraq the Model’s in there, too. And a bunch of others. Not me though. What’s the matter with you slugs? Sheesh.

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Walking in Dreams

Published on 2 Sep 2007 at 11:23 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, blogs.

All of the guest bloggers last week did a great job, and I thank them for giving me a break and giving all of us a highly entertaining week. The greatest honor for all of us was having a pair of grunts take the time to weigh in between combat patrols and preparing to leave Iraq. [...]

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What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Published on 1 Sep 2007 at 9:40 am. 13 Comments.
Filed under blogs.

So I get back. Crittenden Manor is a mess. A man’s home is his castle, and this one looks like it’s been sacked by Huns. Beer cans piled up in the corners and ashtrays overflowing. There’s a floozy passed out in the chandelier she was swinging from. God, I hope that’s passed out. Jeeves, bound, gagged, is [...]

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Little Saddam

Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 2:19 pm. 10 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Iraq, Uncategorized, blogs, middle east.

From a Michael Totten report:
“When you came and liberated this country,” he continued, “Iraq had 25 million Saddams. America is turning us back into human beings.
The quote makes me think, in rabbit-trail fashion, of an evening I enjoyed with a few Iraqi Army soldiers a few months ago. All three were officers- drawn from [...]

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Odd Times

Published on 21 Aug 2007 at 7:55 am. No Comments.
Filed under blogs, media.

Ace: “Seems an odd time for the MSM to lecture bloggers about the need for “the patient fact-finding of reporters.”
Yeah. No kidding.
Let’s see if there’s some folk journo wisdom to be drawn from that. When the going gets odd, the pros turn amateur? I’ll work on it.

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Sunday Magazine

Published on 19 Aug 2007 at 9:05 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Pop cultural affairs commentator Ed Driscoll on Hollywood’s semi-annual horny teenager genre. Is it endangered?
But they wanted to go on vacay! Tigerhawk on the party of competence.
Protein Wisdom on Democratic cannibalism … hang on, let’s try that again … Protein Wisdom on Democratic cannibalism. Yeah, that’s what it says.

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“Beauty In The Dirt”

Published on 18 Aug 2007 at 4:24 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, blogs, military.

Teflon Don finds some:

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Up Creek With Padilla

Published on 17 Aug 2007 at 12:37 am. 29 Comments.
Filed under America, GWOT, blogs.

A terrorism conviction by a jury of his peers should shut up the Padillista cheering section. Don’t you think?

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Theo’s Cube

Published on 14 Aug 2007 at 9:55 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under blogs.

Spark designs a Rubik. But the Austin Powers of the Blogosphere’s no square, baby. So where’s the totty cube?
UPDATE: That’s better. Have to admit I only ever spent about five minutes with a Rubik’s cube before getting bored and annoyed, but would observe that solving The Totty Cube may pose a far greater mental challenge than the [...]

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Back In Circulation

Published on 13 Aug 2007 at 10:29 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, blogs, military.

Greyhawk in the sand:

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Collectible Elsewhere

Published on 13 Aug 2007 at 7:22 am. No Comments.
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Theo introduces us to his pal: The Remittance Man.*

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1,000,000 Served

Published on 12 Aug 2007 at 11:17 am. 9 Comments.
Filed under blogs, shameless self-promotion.

This blog will log its 1 millionth visitor in the next couple of hours. Watch the odometer roll over here. Could be you. Thanks to today’s Instapundit hit and great support all along from Glenn and many others over the past 9 months.

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Carnival of the Insanities

Published on 12 Aug 2007 at 10:25 am. No Comments.
Filed under blogs.

How crazy do you need it to be?

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There’s Shinola, Then There’s …

Published on 11 Aug 2007 at 8:06 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under Bush, blogs.

Lefty self-enthusiast Greenwald, citing Russian “coerced interrogation techniques” and a wiretap law in Zimbabwe, apparently can’t tell the difference between the United States and the abovementioned, between a state of war and states of oppression. This is not a big surprise, however, as he has been known to have trouble distinguishing himself (and his boyfriend) from his sockpuppet, also, [...]

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Beat in Baquba

Published on 10 Aug 2007 at 5:04 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Iraq, blogs, military.

Thunder Run interviews LTC Fred Johnson of 3-2 Stryker in Baquba (I’ve given up trying to figure out how to spell that place and opting for minimalist). A couple of highlights:

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Back to Fallujah

Published on 10 Aug 2007 at 4:51 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, blogs.

Ardolino is headed back. Vid and a roundup from last time here. Observe tip jar, which finances great work like this:

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History Pivots

Published on 9 Aug 2007 at 10:11 am. 6 Comments.
Filed under blogs, history.

Weigh in on the next round at the Oxford Medievalist. Gutenberg’s in the lead. Hard to argue with that.

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Yeah, Wrong Tribe Though

Published on 9 Aug 2007 at 7:28 am. No Comments.
Filed under anthronerdism, blogs, pols.

Rightwingnuthouse’s anthropological observations at YearlyKos:

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Canuck Nyuck

Published on 8 Aug 2007 at 11:30 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under blogs, media.

Roadkill vs. dinosaur media … small dead animals win!

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Happy Birthday, Instapundit!

Published on 8 Aug 2007 at 8:54 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Six years old … My, how you’ve grown! Naked baby on the bear rug shot here.

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Latest Yon

Published on 6 Aug 2007 at 9:57 am. 21 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, blogs.

Amid all this talk of timetables for the War in Iraq, blurred as they are by a strange lemming-like compulsion to declare the “surge” strategy a failure almost before it actually began, one deadline looms larger with each passing day: It’s time for a reckoning with the truth.
Whole thing here.
Don’t forget to visit Yon’s tip [...]

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Carnival of the Insanities

Published on 5 Aug 2007 at 10:18 pm. No Comments.
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Crazy so thick you can cut it with a knife.

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Bridge Blogging

Published on 2 Aug 2007 at 8:55 am. 3 Comments.
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Minnesota bloggers:
Captains Quarters has running, detailed updates
Powerline, Hinderaker’s brother-in-law crossed that bridge four times yesterday.

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Big Victory

Published on 31 Jul 2007 at 8:42 pm. 7 Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Home Depot won’t advertise on Bill O’Reilly. And, as Don Surber notes, the Pittsburgh Pirates have never lost a football game. In the wake of O’Reilly’s downing of YearlyKos’ JetBlue sponsorship, this is big. This is like when the Democratic leadership stuck it to Bush, and forced the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Very big.

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Liveblogging Jerusalem

Published on 31 Jul 2007 at 8:17 am. No Comments.
Filed under Israel, blogs.

With art. And politics. Gateway got a free gig to my favorite city. My favorite Old City, that is.

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Britalia

Published on 30 Jul 2007 at 2:45 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under Britain, blogs, italy.

Favorite site of the last five minutes: Tuscan Tony.
Sort of like a sophisticated, erudite, cosmopolitan Theo Spark. Less literal, more theoretical. Not to suggest of course that Theo is anything less than sophisticated, erudite or cosmopolitan.

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Carnival of the Insanities

Published on 29 Jul 2007 at 9:23 am. No Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Crazy is as crazy does.

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Greatest, Most Pivotal

Published on 28 Jul 2007 at 11:37 pm. 7 Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Caesar beats Alexander, Patton, Khan etal over at the Oxford Medievalist’s. You’ll want to read his Caesar take. And check the new poll in the lefthand column, Most Pivotal Event in History.
Exodus through Sept. 11. Maybe overbroad, though given the brevity of human history, not necessarily. I’m mulling Gutenberg vs. Internet right now, but this list [...]

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Best To Becks

Published on 22 Jul 2007 at 11:18 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under blogs.

Reader RebeccaH, a regular from the start having wandered over from Blair’s site, has suffered a heart attack but reportedly doing OK.
Dan Lewis at Blair: “She must have been watching Lateline…”
These best wishes from KAE.

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Carnival of the Insanities

Published on 22 Jul 2007 at 9:00 am. No Comments.
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Weekly crazy check here.

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Totten Lands in Baghdad

Published on 20 Jul 2007 at 7:42 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, blogs.

Great read from Totten on just getting into the Green Zone. Promising tour begins.

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Party Down

Published on 20 Jul 2007 at 1:09 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under blogs, history.

Lileks on Facebook 1977. I know I’m not the only one who’s glad none of this existed then. But then, I guess that makes me officially an old fart.

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Carnival of the Insanities

Published on 15 Jul 2007 at 9:22 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under blogs.

So crazy, Crittenden goes straight to the top of Dr. Sanity’s list. Meanwhile, in other Sunday reads:

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Important Reader Poll

Published on 10 Jul 2007 at 12:07 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under blogs.

Totty-obsessed British reprobate Theo Spark, the Austin Powers of the Blogosphere, needs to know:
Is there too much totty on this blog?
Regrettably SFW, no totty whatsoever at that link. In the interest of a better-informed electorate, past totty here, here, here, here, here and here.
In case you think Theo’s just about totty, click here, here, here and here. [...]

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