Unqualified Offerings

Didn’t grab me. I get the design, but the machine itself did not go, or only haltingly. And the way they shot Adama’s introspection dooms us to weeks of “Adama IS a Cylon!” fanboyery. Some good performances, though, esp Mary McConnell’s positive girlishness.
UPDATE: Kind of my least-favorite Dresden Files of so far. I liked last [...]

Last week when “New Baghdad” appeared on some briefing materials people wondered if it was some bizarre Orwellian thing. Apparently it’s a neighborhood of Baghdad proper, known as “al-Jadid” in Arabic.

Laith at McClatchy on Surge-era Baghdad, a city made for walking! Excerpt:
My thanks are based on scientific foundations for the following reasons.
1- Walking helps to refresh our blood cells.
2- Walking helps to return back or fitness and especially for me because I spent the last three years [...]

By Mona
We are saving most of our troops who reach our medical units in Iraq, and then they often end up at Walter Reed. And how are we supporting them there? Read about the mold, rotted ceilings, mouse droppings, roach bombs, neglect, institutional insanity, and sheer despair for our wounded and [...]