Live Nude Humvees
Nearly four years after the invasion of Iraq (and more than five since Afghanistan), we still haven’t armored our HMMWVs:
The Army is working to fill a shortfall in Iraq of thousands of advanced Humvee armor kits designed to reduce U.S. troop deaths from roadside bombs — including a rising threat from particularly lethal weapons linked [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed (XY Edition)
Various versions of Bo Diddley’s “I’m A Man” (hear the original):
The Yardbirds from 1967, featuring Jimmy Page bowing the guitar
Spencer Davis Group (ca. sixties)
Chicago (1969)
Keith Emerson’s from the 1981 film Nighthawks
Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones (1981)
The Who (1989)
Steve Winwood (2001)
Automatic Slim (2006)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (2006)
But We Have HDTV
UNICEF ranks the US and the UK dead last among twenty-one industrialized nations in matters of child welfare:
Florence/Berlin- Issuing ratings on the well-being of children in affluent nations, UNICEF faulted the United States and Britain Wednesday, ranking them bottom among 21 industrialized countries. Typical of poor scorers were children who did not trust their [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Is he of God’s making? Of what manner of man?
Is his head worth a hat, or his chin worth a beard?”
–As You Like It, 3.2.202-3
