They went under 20 years ago.

Yeah, difficult things like the fact that it's rare (because it's fucking expensive) that the data from a phone call bounces overseas before it bounces back to the States, or that your internet data gets moved to an overseas server farm.

Oh, yeah, sure it is. First cut on his 1989 album "Guess What I'm Packing". Very overlooked by the audience, in a "Shoot Out the Lights" sorta way.

No doubt…But I do think we can all agree that Diamond Dave made "A Well Respected Man" his very own. Skiddly bop!

Pardon me for being blunt, but I believe this speaks more of your- or possibly your friends'- poor taste in clubs than of anything else.

Pena was traded to the Tigers and played a few years at Comerica. His time in Detroit was pretty much his career in a microcosm: Good defensive first baseman with power at the plate, but a very low batting average- if he made contact, the ball was likely to leave the park…But again, low batting average, meaning he…

Seeing as the contingency plans were probably sitting in a file cabinet in Tampa (quite possibly an unlocked file cabinet in a waiting room)- and the fact that it was Grenada, so military intelligence didn't have to bother accounting for the disposition of the country's fleet, air force, armored divisions, etc- two…

"Sheltie reads KZ, rubs temples- adagio con bravura…Three goddamn days…Nothing…Bloodshot eyes and empty Eastside can-clutter on table…Closer? Closer? Clarity shot to shit…Like walking into a Mexican lightweight's right jab."

I saw it in a theater the day it opened. There were probably three others in the theater, and all of us were LOAO.

"Because academic knowledge should be free."

The mistake you're making is that you fail to recognize the role of the publishers in this affair. JSTOR is a library. JSTOR doesn't publish research journals. JSTOR doesn't select the peer review boards of the research journals. JSTOR doesn't pay for the printing presses which produce the dead tree copies of the…

Being a member of the Hitler Youth didn't necessarily identify one as an ardent Nazi. It's like the Boy Scouts were here at the time- some kids joined just because that's what kids did, while others really bought into it.

"Rather as the Nobel committee does, the Pulitzer committee sometimes,
IMHO, selects winners in order to make a point. The appalling (and
greedy) overreach of the NSA domestically is fairly inarguable, which
the Pulitzers reflect."

"But the seemingly high average age of combat troops is probably due…"

I'm not sure that's right. I think the average age of those in the military was 26, but that includes everyone behind the lines as well as those on them. Hell, Dashiell Hammett was a 48-year old WWI retread (to be clear, he volunteered for service in WWII) who edited an Army newspaper in the Aleutians- he never got…

Ironically, there are a few guys from Easy Company who got a lot of ink in the book but weren't portrayed at all in the series. I've always assumed that was because the producers couldn't get rights waivers from those guys' surviving relatives.

Front-line medics tend to suffer higher casualty rates than other grunts. The markings on their uniforms are meant to cause opposing forces from shooting at them, but that doesn't mean they aren't shot. And the people firing field artillery can't see them most of the time. .

That's a great scene, but I don't think you can pull a one or two second shot from it and think that the shot explains a whole lot. Those couple of seconds on Perconte, though, sum up the theme of that entire episode well, and that episode explains well the motivations that drove these young men to make the sacrifices…

I believe that look is called "really hung over".

"But whenever I think of Band of Brothers, the first image in my
mind is the image of Damian Lewis as Winters on the berm, and the back
and forth between him and the kid, and the shooting that's done in that
first scene"