Comments on: How could this not be a good idea?

By: lemuel pitkin

lemuel pitkin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:14:23 +0000

Huh. I had no idea Adam Yoshida was still posting.

By: calling all toasters

calling all toasters — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:06:59 +0000

Why has no one taken advantage of the discord and seized the crown? A few rounds of good old-fashioned tactical nukes is all that stands between the current imbroglio and Emperor Petraeus I of New Babylonia and the Greater Middle East.

By: Sandman

Sandman — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:47:43 +0000

You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all alike.

By: kenmeer livermaile

kenmeer livermaile — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:02:09 +0000

I love Counting Corpses. Sure, their singer is whiny, but in a good way. At least in the median estimate.

By: Sifu Tweety Fish

Sifu Tweety Fish — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:16:03 +0000

P.S. What’s up with the 2 identical blockquotes?

You must have imagined them.

By: Stogie

Stogie — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:13:00 +0000

At the age of 21, in the third year of my enlistment in the Marines, I spent more than I should have to purchase a flashy car (a twin-turbo Dodge Stealth) from my uncle. I flew into Chicago over the Thanksgiving weekend to pick up my new toy for what I planned to be a leisurely drive back to Camp Pendleton. I’d driven the greater part of the route once before, and was confident that I could make it back in three days for duty on Monday morning. Well, something “gang agley”. Several somethings, in fact.
But the relevant one here was the sidewall blow-out which occurred at 65 mph on a deserted stretch of snow-covered Iowa highway. I fought to control my unfamiliar vehicle, skidding closer and closer to the abyssal ditches flanking the road. Avoiding one meant steering toward the other. My lack of familiarity with the vehicle ensured that I overcorrected, time after time.

Somehow, I entered into a spin and executed at least two and a half loops on a two-lane, curving, iced-over road and came to a stop, facing the wrong way, but miraculously in the middle of the road and not at the bottom of one of the ditches.

So when I see Maliki, Petraeus, and the whole cast of characters yanking back and forth on the political wheel, building up the Sunnis to counterbalance Al Qaeda, swerving from de-Baathification to re-Baathification, I only have one thought: may God send that Iraq somehow emerge from its tailspin in the middle of the road. But I fear it will come out otherwise.

P.S. What’s up with the 2 identical blockquotes?

By: Elliott

Elliott — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:08:48 +0000

You are in a narrow, dark passageway, or is it dark and narrow? Narrow and dark? Smelly. Oh hell, blast the wall…

By: Matt Weiner

Matt Weiner — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:48:54 +0000

This post nicely illustrates the infinite-loop Mobius strip of our Iraq policy.