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Will he launch today?
What will we do?
But today my nephew became took his oath and went to Paris Island to become a Marine. It’s been a weighty day, emotion wise.. and it portends to only get more intense as his training intensifies and world conflicts brew. So yes, North Korea Afghanistan, and all the other ‘Stans’ and strange arenas of global strife suddenly take center stage in my family’s life.
We are proud of this young man, Shawn “Mere” as he will now be known. We know he can do it.
And we also know he understands the oath he took today is one of the most sacred and noble things he has ever done…
He’s surely more brave than I ever was at the age of 18..
Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin were confronted by a topless protester..
Not sure about Angela, but Vlad the Impaler surely was amused.. I’m sure KGB style research is being conducted to get a phone number as I type..
It brings up some delicate and truly great questions.. How should businesses that deal with appealing to the sense of sight deal with glasses that see it all?
Billions?! Great.. It will feel like the end of the world here now too. Just great..
Internet firms are pretty angry that a California bill could make their companies tell users what happens with personal information.. And doesn’t that just tell you the whole story in itself?
And they’re from the 1970s!
Nixon and Kissinger documents here we come..
I recently re-watched it. I forgot just how bad it was.
It was bad.
And if you’re really into reading about just how bad the movie was, here is a GUARDIAN piece from 2011 reminding us all of that..