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why will no one love me?
Via Mean Mr. Mustard from several other people including Andrea Harris who got it from Dan and Angi, who apparently have something to say:
“The assignment. Give us ten of your quirky, opinionated, perhaps socially-unacceptable or politically incorrect opinions. They can be esoteric, generic, unpopular, or obvious. Just write down ten of them.”
I think some of these weren’t exactly in the spirit of the challenge, but damn it, I did it! Ten is hard!
I finally got off my duff and cut together some of my own pics for the Random Image Theme banner at the top here. The little girl asleep on the couch is my daughter Audrey, the Bears are actually one Spectacled Bear at the Brookfield Zoo that I flipped and pasted in Photoshop. The Moon came with Windows XP and the Light Saber is mine. I am a Jedi Master.
For those of you who get my blog via feed, with help from David at Facade of Americana, I have moved Catastrophic Success from http://www.misterbixby.com/blog to http://www.misterbixby.com. Not being overly familiar with WordPress and php, I don’t know how long the index.php file at /blog will continue to update, so please update your links accordingly.
My Fantasy Football Team has a poster and a logo, even though the draft isn’t until next week. Without further ado:
Please do yourself a favor and go to Michael Yon: Online Magazine. This man is an independent observer of the fighting in Iraq, assign to a unit referred to as the “Deuce Four.”
A friend sent me the link to yesterday’s dispatch. I am a lesser man for allowing other men to so honorably serve on my behalf. I should instead be serving them. They are better still for knowing this, and not acknowledging it.
Mr. Yon speaks extensively in this dispatch about the Deuce Four’s CO, LTC Kurilla. Men like Lt. Colonel Erik Kurilla are the exemplar of the American Fighting Soldier. Would that there were more men like him in this world, and this war. It’s obvious that his men love him. It’s obvious that he deserves it.
There is indeed good news coming out of Iraq, but there is also a great deal to be concerned about. In this context, one of the most disturbing things to hear about is the revolving door of the Army Detention Facility that spew known terrorists back out into the wild to shoot at our men. Shameful.
Check it out. But get some pretzels and popcorn, the dispatches are looooooong.
I have to apologize (AGAIN!) for the lack of content updates to this site. We have been running ragged between foiled vacation plans, an ungodly hectic work schedule, a resurgence of the aneurysmal bone cyst in Madelyn’s arm, a crashed main PC, and an attempt at some quality marriage time. In addition, I have been having a bit of a crisis of faith regarding this blog. I’m still not indexed by Google (I think maybe due to my lack of a front page – MisterBixby.com currently forwards to this blog through a .htaccess redirect) so that venue of traffic is eliminated (screwing my GoogleAds in the process). I also am not too well known, and I don’t think I have much of a solid unifying viewpoint. I have to re-think my approach to blogging before I dive more deeply into it.
I will keep you posted. The only thing going for me is that at least I still update more frequently than Bill Whittle, though with half the quality.