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/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:35:05 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Poking through the old Boz Dufflebag O' Stuff from 2002, I discovered my copy of the Consolidated Comparative Analysis of the Service Branch Playbooks (Abridged) -- and, since Football Season snuck in through the back door while I was engaged in teaching Gaby the Junior Scruple that tunneling in the compost heap is frowned upon in these here parts, I figure it's time for it to see the light of day once again... Recently, the Pentagon announced new rules for the Fall 2002 Army-Navy-Air Force-Marine Corps football tournament. It is now known that the gender-integrated teams will take to the... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:56:09 -0600 You forgot to add something to the playbook article "The rest of the world applauded politely - and declined to play American football." I think that's the saddest aspect of the metaphor. Non-one's interested in playing the game that the US wants to play. They prefer to play a game that the US is barely aware of http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66361 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66361 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:25:37 -0600 BCR -- *shocked*? Didn't you say you had that 220v robomouse grounded to PG-17c eight ways from Sunday? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66295 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66295 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:40:45 -0600 Sugarbuttons--you mean you *listened*??? Butter ain't the only thing freezing solid right now. I'm shocked, shocked! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66280 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66280 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:07:54 -0600 Things have been getting entirely too lugubrious around here lately. A dearth of lubrication engenders lugubriosity. In more interpretations than the one I'm thinking of. Or so I've been told. *butter in mouth freezing solid*]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66251 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66251 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:45:10 -0600 P.s. I wrote that that way,on purpose. I applaud AFSis's recent effort at being a smartass in a female kind of way. Things have been getting entirely too lugubrious around here lately. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66248 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66248 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:41:32 -0600 Ah, yes, the Army plan - "Hey diddle diddle, straight up the middle!" Worked so well at Cold Harbor, dinnit? "Sigh!" Yankees! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66247 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/fouo_service_br.html#comment-66247 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:36:06 -0600