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US War Deaths per Day by Conflict (War, Battle) and How Iraq Compares

Posted on: 1 March 2008 /

Categories: Global Politics, War

These should be in order chronologically and it’s admittedly a little weighted toward the Pacific Theater of World War II. In case you don’t want to read to the bottom, Iraq: 3,973 deaths in 1,806 days, 2.2 deaths/day. Event US Deaths Duration Deaths/Day Lexington & Concord (Revolution) 50 1 day 50.0 Estimated death count (US

If I’m Ever Fortunate Enough to Own an Elk, I Hope It’s as Despicable as I Am

Posted on: 19 December 2007 /

Categories: People Are Special

Although I’ve heard it said that no one truly owns an elk, so much as the elk owns them. Found this in the comments of an LA Times blogicle regarding Ron Paul’s polling numbers: You publication must be purposely censoring post. I put in the right code and my comment was not spam. You and

Veterans’ Day, So Here Are My Favorite War Books

Posted on: 11 November 2007 /

Categories: War

And when I say “war books”, I’m talking about non-fiction stuff I’ve read as “research” for my “novel”. With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge — Painfully unaffected first-person account of two of the bloodiest campaigns of the Pacific. It’s like being there and it’s beautiful and it sucks. If

Deeper Into Another Cult: Happiness Is a Warm Springfield ’03 Bolt-Action Rifle

Posted on: 2 November 2007 /

Categories: Self Promotion, War

Pluses: Is actually from World War II. Vintage. Awakens ghosts. Has a bolt action! Spent shells sound cool as they fly onto the ground. Grants me libertarian Second Amendment cred. Endears me to rednecks. Is very loud. Teaches you what a “magazine cut-off switch” does. Holds up to five rounds. Cool Springfield Armory logo and

Alligator Creek, Sans Alligators

Posted on: 19 July 2007 /

Categories: Travel, War

I’ll start with the video this time. It’s actually compressed. Then if you’re interested, you can get my amateur historical synopsis. VIDEO (Quicktime, 4.7MB): Alligator Creek [amateur historical synopsis] Essentially at the far western end of Red Beach is Alligator Creek, which is actually the Ilu River and is known to historians as the site

Red Beach, July 4th, Guadalcanal

Posted on: 18 July 2007 /

Categories: Travel, War

For some reason I thought it’d be great to see as many war sites as I could on the Fourth of July. I dunno — maybe that was a good idea. Red Beach on Guadalcanal was the Normandy of the Pacific — not in terms of battle ferocity, but in the sense that it was

The Mouth of the Matanikau River

Posted on: 17 July 2007 /

Categories: Travel, War

Late summer, early fall of 1942, the decisive land battles of the Pacific Theater were being fought on Guadalcanal. There were two key battle locations that, essentially, held the key to victory: Edson’s Ridge and the mouth of the Matanikau River. The mouth of the Matanikau was important because it was the only reasonable place

Viva Estonia

Posted on: 5 June 2007 /

Categories: Global Politics

Oh, granted, it’s a Radio Free Europe interview with a US-friendly politician, but still, I loved the frankness and candor of Estonian president Toomas Hendrik here. (I was also intrigued that one of the interviewers was named “Chalupa”.) E.g.: “Russian relations with Ukraine and Georgia were fine until they had democratic revolutions.” Plus he references

Cabbies Say the Darnedest Things

Posted on: 20 May 2007 /

Categories: Global Politics, Travel

Cab driver from DFW to the W Victory was Palestinian: “What are they fighting for? What do they want their own country for? We already have 22 Arab countries and they all suck. What do we want a 23rd for?” Of course, he also mentioned that the only people greedier than the “yellow man” were

Some Blogger/Columnist Loses Faith in Romney after 60 Minutes Appearance

Posted on: 14 May 2007 /

Categories: People Are Special

http://www.swnewsherald.com/online_content/2007/05/051407rh_romney.php Dude, all you’re really saying is that you hadn’t been following Romney’s campaign. The only thing that changed Sunday was that you watched a TV show where they talked about everything that everyone who already knows anything about his campaign already knows. How can you feel like this was a revelation to you? I

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