5 Year Army Anniversary

It’s all pent up, ready to gush out.

I finished the LTC Grossman’s book, On Combat, and recommend it to any law enforcement officer or warrior. Ann Coulter’s new one, Godless, should be in my hands in about a week. But, for now, I’m reading D’Souza’s What’s So Great About America.

Andy Rooney is known for his odd grievances, but CBS still looks to him for “what’s wrong with society” rants. His problem this week: Shoes! That’s right. The most important thing on this geezer’s mind is that he has “20 pairs of shoes [he doesn’t] wear, but they cost so much, [he] can't stand to throw them out.” Rooney also “never understood why [his] shoe size is 9-1/2 and [his] sock size is 11.” Way to uphold the stereotype.

Simon Avery is churning the rumor mill over Apple’s next big venture, an Apple Blackberry. The partnership between Research In Motion and Apple was speculated by the same man, who last year foresaw the partnership between RIM and Intel. Motorola is the company that make’s the Rokr cell phone which allows users to store iTunes songs on their phone. The relationship between Apple and Motorola, despite Apple’s dumping the company for Intel to make their processors, is still workable. If Apple can keep the product cost less than $500, they can definitely take 10 percent of the high-end cell phone market.

Doctors are now claiming that up to 16 million people have been broadly diagnosed with a disorder that can be used to excuse road rage. It’s called intermittent explosive disorder. Dr. Emil Cocarro stated that “[p]eople think it’s bad behavior and that you just need an attitude adjustment, but what they don’t know … is that there’s a biology and cognitive science to this.” The disorder is even being seen in our children. A 16-year-old boy has been diagnosed because, “in stressful situations at home, he ‘explodes and tears apart his room, [and] throws things at other people.'” Sounds like poor parenting if you ask me. As for the adults, they were the ones getting away with temper tantrums as kids.

I am pleased to announce that I have finally found a political ideology which I can rally behind. For years, I have neither claimed Republican nor Democrat as my party. Even when I labeled myself as a libertarian, I had some qualms. I agree with different sides on multiple issues. To put the ideological civil war inside me to rest, I announce that I am a neolibertarian. The philosophy combines the foreign policies of neoconservatism with the social and domestic policies of libertarianism. Other known neolibertarians are Neal Boortz, Larry Elder, and P.J. O’Rourke. I can now sleep at night.

I haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain, but apparently a kiss between the two cowboys was good enough to get the MTV Movie Award’s Best Kiss award. Ewww.

On the topic of sodomy, I understand this gay marriage issue is being brought up to rally the conservative base for the 2006 midterms. However, I’m honestly confused as to how two men getting married threatens my marriage. If gays are allowed to marry, does that mean more heterosexuals will give the other team a fair look? If they are not allowed to marry, does that make my marriage stronger? I’m just not seeing the connection from two women getting married to a complete deterioration of the heterosexual marriage and family. I still feel homosexuality is unnatural, though.