I'm sick, I'm lazy. Time for a linkfest.

The Emperor, after a small skirmish with virii sends us to Transterrestrial Musings for a satire fix.

The Commissar shows us how Communist Banks deal with bomb threats. Don't forget to send an email to Security!

Susie gives me a chance at Meta-Linking.

Donnie makes an interesting observation. I may never look at a hot dog the same way again.

SGT Hook must be very, very busy. I can relate. Been there, deployed that.

Matty at Blackfive offers another chance at Meta-Linking, just so I can be a pretentious twit and annoy James Joyce. Matt also shares my opinion of North Korea's infatuation with Kerry.

Greyhawk discusses the Left's Nightmare Scenario. Right below that he has a vision of a Kerry Presidency.

Jen Martinez has a one-stop shop for Kerry's voting record, in case you are fence-sitting. It will push you whichever way your going-in predjudices orient you. Though, since I've had exactly three trolls (and that's not really being fair to Clete) in 44,000 unique vists in the six months I've been bloviating - I suspect my 333 average visitors per day are generally of a like mind about the Senator from Massachusetts. I do have a rather persistant fact-checker, however. Analyst.

Don Sensing has some thoughts on where the GWOT is headed, kind of an update on his thoughts expressed here (always worth the read). I never let the fact that we are both retired artillerymen cloud my judgement regarding Don's thoughts - which are informed from a much different perspective from mine - which is why it's nice to see the congruence. Don also has a post on "politcal humanitarianism"" (my term, not his)>. Go Finland! Hey - I have to be nice to them, they're ahead of France and number 4 in the list of visitors to Castle Argghhh! from non-Anglosphere nations.

Murdoc, who's link to my Glock post is both a source of many referrals and a huge, sinking hole of bandwidth consumption, has a poll about when you think GWB's window of opportunity for capturing Osama is before it will be labeled political opportunism. I think that window passed after Dean imploded, myself. I've already seen the lunatic and not-so-lunatic fringe positing that we already have Osama and he'll be trotted out when needed.

Blaster thinks Andrew Sullivan is starting to blow a gasket. It's got to be tough for Andrew, being gay and having a big emotional stake in the marriage thing, and yet being aware that there are Bad People in the world, that Dems like Kerry won't do much about. He's in a classic avoidance-avoidance trap. Hint to Andrew - you can fight the marriage thing day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year. A building can collapse in 4 hours.

Okay, enough for now. On to other pursuits for a bit.