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The official site for General Zod in 2008. Most importantly, Zod is not a sitting Senator.

Britain plans to fire the entire 25,000-man police force in Southern Iraq and “replace it with a new military-style unit capable of maintaining law and order,” according to Defense Minister John Reid as reported in an excellent roundup item by Tom Regan of the Christian Science Monitor.
I have no love to spare for the Basra [...]

Near as I can tell, this very blog was the first place on all the internets you could learn of Carla Speed McNeil’s decision to take Finder to the web. Take that, Bad Signal! Take that, Engine! Take that, Beat! Take that, Great Curve!
Bwa, to coin a phrase. Bwa, and ha, and ha and ha [...]

MY homies. Good stuff from Justin Logan on Taiwan’s insouciance about its own security and Gene Healy on America’s insouciance about untrammelled executive power to dispose of your life.
Have I mentioned lately how proud I am to know these gentlemen?

The less snarky and more dire point that comes out of the previous item is that the US Army, and probably the military as a whole, has become a deeply corrupt institution over the last couple of years. The direct cause is bad leadership, starting with the political appointees in the Pentagon and extending to [...]

WASHINGTON — When Army Capt. Ian Fishback told his company and battalion commanders that soldiers were abusing Iraqi prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention, he says, they told him those rules were easily skirted.
When he wrote a memo saying Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was wrong in telling Congress that the Army follows the [...]

Borowitz.
And from last week: ZELLWEGER SAYS CHESNEY LIED ABOUT SADDAM’S WMD.

Best. Linkblog Post. Ever.

Brett Peters, erstwhile Houstonian, has a lot of links. (Scroll down.)

I’ve been a fan of Carla Speed McNeil’s anthropological SF comic, Finder, for a couple of years now, so the biggest delight of SPX for me was the chance to pick up the collected edition of the latest story, The Rescuers (my review forthcoming), and talk to her about her plans for the future. There [...]