Back At The Drawing Board

After a month hiatus, I'm back with plenty of rants.

Let's begin...

Not only is Mars under attack from our emissions, Neptune, now the furthest planet from Earth, is under assault from Global Warming. Funny, if you look at the rise in the amount of solar radiance and UV flux proxy, it looks similar to that of Neptune's and Earth's.

Kevin Ferris reports on General Barry McCaffrey's (liberals' 3rd favorite military man - 1 being Benedict Arnold and 2 being General Wesley Clark) support for Generals Petraeus and Ordierno and our troops who are "phenomenally courageous and competent." He says that conditions could definitely be worse than they are now and February is a more honest time for surge measurement, not September.

Ralph Peters, a favorite of mine, says our surge is the right idea, but it is something that should have been done a long while ago. Great read on the strategies of the warring sides. I share his frustration of our weakness.

Jobs and Gates have a sit-down at All Things Digital. Nothing Special. Though, his Zune zinger got a chuckle.

As most know, I'm a big Simpsons fan. But I was pretty turned off by Season 18, Episode 4's mockery of our soldiers. I'm all for a gag and punch every once in a while, but Groening and gang took it a little far. They showed the recruiters as deceiving, the soldiers as morons, and in the end offered surrender with Lisa quipping "You should have known you can't win against a local opposition." Bad form.