I notice the 500 Days watch seems to have disappeared.

I mean, for now I don’t want to jump to conclusions at least as far as Bergdahl’s motives go, but I’ve known more than one 23 year old who’s served in Iraq or Afghanistan. This would certainly would not appear reasonable to them, and they would definitely understand that deserting in an area with lots of Taliban would…

is that a Hungarian Bentail? an Affleck Fireball? a Common Welsh Gigli?

I am wondering if I am going to vacillate between whether he is a deserter or if this was really just his stupid choice to expose mismanagement during every episode (as I did with the Adnan story). After the first episode, I am pretty sure he's lying and deserted.

I didn’t follow it very closely in the news, but I’ve always felt that he got the short end of the stick. I also didn’t understand why he left. After listening to his explanation, I was also struck with the immaturity he displayed at the time. And then I think back to myself at 23, and other folks I knew at 23, and…

Nahhh, Ive read a lot about him already (all of his emails/letters/diary have been released for a while) and he is giant flaky delusional idiot.

But he’s sooooo pretty.

Yeah, I’ll be interested to hear more on that too, but even if that was the case and he was concerned about unnecessary risks to soldiers, then, well, he did the most counterintuitive thing possible by wandering off alone into an area with a high likelihood of capture, since the military would be looking for him which…

He’s a moron. Leaving your post, if described as desertion or misbehavior before the enemy, are punishable by death according the UCMJ. They all know that. I haven’t listened to the first episode though to be fair.

Bergdahl comes off terribly in interviews and I can't imagine spending hours dealing with his ridiculous justifications. No thank you.

I feel the same as you. As soon as he started talking about Jason Bourne I kinda zoned him out. How stupid do you have to be to walk into enemy territory just to complain about something? Ugh.

He’s a fucking idiot. Like a complete moron. at least it illuminates how very base and horrible a lot of this shit really boils down to. There are stupid, tunnel-visioned young men serving in the military all over the world who think it’s all going to be excitement and blowing crap up and when it ends up being…

I mean, maybe it’s because I’m woefully ignorant of military and anything having to do with it, but I DO NOT understand his explaination of the DUSTWUN. “I thought the leadership was bad,and this would bring attention to it.” Huh? Why would you do that? Or think that’s a good idea? Roam the desert in Afghanistan to…

Confession: I do this every summer. You feel crazy great, you eat all the fruits and veggie and sprouts and have fun with alternate sandwiches, nut milk, smoothies and your skin looks awesome.

I get what she’s saying but I also think she’s overly generalizing. I used to eat the way Nigella ate. her idea of moderation made me break out, feel lethargic and generally unhappy. I now eat a ‘clean diet’ (i dont call it that bc it’s stupid term but 90% of what I eat would probably make Nigella want to kill…

it’s obviously not the case for everyone but yeah...

You know, he only exists in this reality if you look directly at him.

I am not a fan of Scalia by any means, but questions during oral arguments aren’t the best evidence of a problem (for that, we need to look at legal opinions he’s written or interviews he’s done). Often justices will propose opposing (sometimes crazy) arguments and points to poke holes in arguments, get a lawyer to…

That’s....not even close to the argument he was making. You should at least make an effort to understand what opponents of affirmative action think. The argument goes something like this:

He does, he just doesn’t care to use it when “partisan racist troll” works better for the outcome he wants to see. In any case, he didn’t come up with this bit on his own; it’s apparently from some garbage amicus brief he’s choosing to credulously buy into, and of course, it’s not racist if you put a nice academic…