[...] JR Michael, Greyhawk of The Mudville Gazette, writes a review of Yon’s new book for the New York Post that is worth reading itself because it comes from the perspective of a veteran of two tours in Iraq. I have not read Yon’s book yet, but already knowing his writing and reading Michael’s review reinforces my desire to do so. [...]

One of my very favorite emails that I receive everyday is from a Web site called Very Short List. Five days a week, they send out an email about something quirky, interesting, or just plain funny somewhere on the web. It’s like an Internet scavenger hunt only I don’t have to do the hunting.[...]

One of my professors this quarter clearly does not like President Bush (the others are just less clear). I have had three classes with this professor so far this quarter, and in each class she has taken at least one opportunity to make the statement “They say that President Bush is the worst president the United States has ever had.”[...]

While the rest of the world obsesses about the American presidential election and the Olympic torch relay, Iran’s president announced that his country has activated 6,000 more cascade centrifuges for the production of highly enriched uranium. This announcement brings the total number of centrifuges that Iran admits to operating to around 9,000. [...]

[...] In fact, I resent the opinions of Col Hunt and many, many people like him who choose to distill the conflict in Iraq down to convenient individual points that also conveniently ignore the very broad and very complex depth of points that the conflict in Iraq represents. This is not to say that such people do not have a right to their opinions, rather it is to say that their opinions are shallow, inaccurate, and ignore many, many facts that contradict their opinions. [...]