Better Cannon Fodder
via David Woodbury's Of Battlefields and Bibliophiles, via Mark Grimsley's Blog Them Out of the Stone Ageis this gem at The Onion.
In The Know: Our Troops In Iraq
Of course, the Maine 20th might not settle for taking Little Round Top this time, and might decide to march on Washington City instead. The war wasn't lost in Iraq. It was lost at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and across the river, at 48 N. Rotary Road, Arlington, Virginia, in the E-Wing, 3rd-Deck.