I had my car towed on Friday night when my alternator died (which I've known for some time was imminent, I was just hoping I'd be able to roll it into the shop as it expired). I didn't take the time to remove any "valuables" from my vehicle. There are about a dozen CDs floating around the back seat of my car.

Apparently, auto mechanics don't like my taste in music.

However, someone did steal one of these out of my glove box:

I am thinking again about cutting my hair. Does anyone have an opinion on this?

Neon Bible

...is the number one album on iTunes. I'm so trendy.

Hey, remember when you were a kid and you'd spin around and make yourself dizzy? Now, in the age of the internet, all you have to do is watch this video:

I thought I would share with you this email I received from my brother who was recently deployed to Afghanistan. I've been assured that none of this is classified material. After all, I don't want to end up like Scooter Libby.


Hey Everyone,
Dropping my Monthly Afghan Deployment Gazette.

The enclosed pics are from our latest mission. We air assaulted into an area that has never seen Americans before. We got lots of reports of bad guys being in the area. So we loaded up with the big guns bringing over 80 people: U.S. and Afghan Army, artillery and I think someone had a kitchen sink. Me and my guy brought an extra 300 rounds of ammo on the trip. So we're thinking its gonna be like the OK Corral as soon as we step off the bird.

WELL....
It wasn't. It was probably the nicest village I have been in ever in this country. That's not saying much, but still. The locals were nice, even though we could tell they didn't really want us there and just wanted to go about their own business. So nothing bad happened except getting snowed in for a day. We had guys falling down the mountains into rivers. It was nuts. All of our MEDEVAC guys were from slipping on the mountain and not from enemy contact which was crazy to us. In fact we played baseball and wrestled and the guys talked me into doing the "Carlton Dance". Pretty chill for what was supposed to be the biggest and possibly most dangerous mission since earlier in the fall.

All in all it was good. Of course we found a couple of bad guys (there are some in every village) but it was peaceful for the most part

Hope you all like the pics,
Q

The Mind of the Metropolitan returns, featuring a lengthy interview with Seymour Hersh. So, if you've got an hour to kill, click on over.