Shaking the Tree…

I know that I promised light blogging…but the fact that Atrios has raised nearly a quarter of a million dollars ($228,784, to be precise) for John Kerry is simply breathtaking. With all due respect to Kevin Drum, the man’s not just a serious player: he’s darn near the bloody rainmaker.
Also, with all due respect to [...]

Like A Thief

Turns out June 30 wasn’t that important after all. Like a thief in the night, Paul Bremer stole away from Baghdad, transferring what little authority we’ll let the Iraqis exercise to the Interim Government two days early.
So much for pretending that the war is going well.
On another topic, I’m on a bit of [...]

Cheering the Man, Part II

So we had the Kerry Rally yesterday, something that went off smashingly. One of the reasons I haven’t posted much lately is because I’ve been working hard on Kerry’s campaign, helping to set this event up from the veterans’ angle. But there was a big payoff–for me, anyway–in the end.
I drove up to Denver Sunday [...]

Cheering the Man

I was amazingly lucky enough to attend the Kerry rally today in Denver. I managed to also take some pictures from where I was standing, for your enjoyment. More tomorrow, since I’m totally exhausted.
Be warned: this is a HUGE picture. I’ll work on making the rest of the pictures I took a more manageable [...]

The Gipper’s Final Ride

I haven’t posted in a while, mostly because I’ve been so bloody busy. We’re fixing to go on our long vacation here, and our stuff is finally arriving here, plus we’re recertifying and preparing to start our retraining so that we can regain our fighting trim. That, and I’ve been busy with some offline personal [...]

The Sound of Silence

That’s what we’ll get from George Tenet, I believe. I don’t think that he’ll speak about what he’s seen during his tenure, and if he does, it will be in the most saccharine, general terms possible. CIA directors, after all, don’t have a reputation for writing “tell-all” memoirs (cf. gentlemen like Bill Colby, Rich Gates, [...]