| Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| Back on the blog |
It's been a weekend of eratic blogging from me, between the power outages from Katrina (nothing compared to the devastation in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but Florida did have its share of pain) and a couple of days out of town. This seems like a day for putting aside politics, and for the most part, I probably will ... for the most part. OK I probably won't entirely, but at least I know I should...
The SF Chronicle has a nice roundup of world press opinion (though admittedly cherry picked to suit the Gate's POV) on Iraq, Venezuela's Chavez versus the GOP's crazy Pat Robertson and Japan's isolation on the Asian subcontinent. The conclusions aren't promising, across the board. The Chronicle also picks up where the NYT left off in querying actual OIF vets on the F/X series "Over There," which I (and apparently many other civilians) love, but soldiers generally seem to either hate or find pretty funny and inacurate. Interesting how that works. It just goes to show you how disconnected we Americans are from the experiences of our uniformed military. They go to war, we watch TV... |
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