We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:00:26 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification You can only study so much of the internal workings of a 60s-vintage jet, not to mention memorizing checklists, emergency procedures and all the other queep that goes into keeping the mechanical version of a pterodactyl in the air without occasionally coming up for air. Of course, for a political junkie like me it often turns into a little recreational reading. In this case, it was one of the regular contributors to The American Spectator, Ben Stein. If you watch any Neil Cavuto on Fox, you know Ben. If you've ever watched "Win Ben Stein's Money," you know Ben. If... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:01:36 -0600 Talk about a HUUGE Brain Passing of Gas!!!! Must have been severely Drain Bramaged when I composed the above. My Appologies to you Dusty - Messrs Stiller and Stein for comfusing one with the other - and all gentle readers to this fair blog. BOQ http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31055 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31055 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:06:01 -0600 Stein. Ben STEIN. Or were you being facetious? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31054 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31054 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:04:57 -0600 THESE and THOSE little pearls in that movie. But Surprise - Surprise. Does anyone know what is one of this Latin Geek's favorite lines in Ferris Bueller's??? Ben Stiller's Death Valley-Arid, Bone-Dry delivery of the Declension of the 1st Class Nouns in Latin Class... A-gri-co-la........ A-gri-co-lae....... A-gri-co-lae....... A-gri-co-lam....... A-gri-co-la........ I do have much respect for Mr. Stiller, a hometown boy from Silver Spring Md. done good. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31048 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31048 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:24:03 -0600 The Fallen do not die in vain. We can know the myriad agents of their deaths, but the meaning will be hidden from us until we, too, step away and see the meaning of our own deaths... ...and, more importantly, the meaning of our Life. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31029 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31029 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:53:37 -0600 Outstanding. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31028 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31028 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:02:24 -0600 Amen brother. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31025 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31025 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:29:29 -0600 You (and Ben) got it in one, Dusty... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31023 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/08/be_proud.html#comment-31023 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:54:50 -0600