I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.