Thank you for the thoughtful, detailed response! You’ve given me something to talk to the guys about. And no, I don’t work in the commissary. There is literally no way I could (or would want to) prove to you that I am who I say I am. I might start our conversation by asking you- have you read this synopsis of OPPLAN…

Wrong.

Ok, I’m with you on the Afghanistan nonsense, but if you think China would risk a shutdown of trade with their largest trading partner for NK, you are not well schooled in basic economics. If anything, China would sit back and then politely request a 5-10-20 mile DMZ between Newly LIberated NK and the Chinese border…

Yyyyeaahhh that’s not really what OPPLAN 5027 says at all. Kindof, but not really. And they don’t expect Pyongyang to fall easily.

Maybe for SF deployments, but you aren’t getting large amounts of troops or supplies anywhere with an AN2. Also, Apaches could engage the AN2 with the cannon quite easily.

Couldn’t stop reading it, and would have read 10 more pages! You are a fantastic writer, Madeleine, and I shall be eagerly awaiting your next piece! Bra-fucking-vo!

If we are choosing Next Songs i request Le Boudin - ‘the Blood Sausage’ - the song of the French Foreign Legion. Tied very closely to the Hand of Captain Danjou - now there is a story worth one of your fine articles.

More like: ‘let me introduce you to the military-industrial complex’

I call bullshit- what is that, a dusty old NIC sitting on top of a bunch of other old computer parts? Is that Cat5 plugged in underneath it!? Why would you need either of those types of cable inside anything like this? Bullshit. This is somebody’s senior thesis/project from 1997 that floated out to sea and never came…

Had both multiple times. Shake shack does not win. Good, but not better than 5G.

That was my first boxing match. I thought the boxers were supposed to beat each other up? If the point is simply to slap the other guy more times than he slaps you, this is a boring, dumb sport.

You need to go there. Whoever designed Udvar was a goddamn genius. The One-Two combo of standing in front of Blackbird and looking beyond her to see Discovery....my god. Thar be giants here...

Yeah he totally climbed that snowy mountain in no-grip shiney oxfords.

Interesting how things change over 17 short years-I took my ex wife to Santorini, from London, in 2010. Easy, quick trip and -yes- stunning island. Highly recommend it to anyone- unfortunate that I had to spend it with my bitchwhore ex, but the amazing nature of Santorini remains unsullied...

I just accidentally learned something on Gawker because of you. Thanks, I think.

Has 'Becky' showed up on Gawker since? Does she know she is internet famous now?

I think the larger assumption is that the truck will stay in America and not end up in the international news...

I'm laughing so goddamn hard I almost woke up the wife and baby.

You bet. Let me just polish up the cold fusion reactor in my garage and we will go take care of that.

~2:40 onwards surfing the cloudtops where the wingtips were visibly skimming the clouds from time to time was one of the coolest things I've seen in a long while.