from only watching the clips, briefly, I would suggest that she wants the arm-candy not for the sake of arm-candy per se as much as its a statement to others that "hey, I can get this guy, which must mean I'm hot" - in other words, the guy is only there as a self-esteem tool. Given that many might not consider her…

@mouseyChuu: Perhaps, but my take is that if they were really "racist" they wouldn't have "gotten" these chicks in the first place or portrayed the acts as grudge-oriented, to put it gently. That said, I think we want to be careful about painting ethnic stereotyping as racism, which is not to say they're not…

@slowtraincoming: I'm just not seeing it - I don't see intent; I see a need to be descriptive and graphic, in the way guys talk about their conquests, but don't see the real ethnocentric anger that racism requires. And I've been in fistfights in the last 10 years because I've seen that up close and personal. I'm…

@Peppermint: Nothing gets you out of going to Iraq, other than Daddy's political contributions. On the other hand, a college roommate is on sabbatical at DoD, and he goes to Iraq often, but with the bold-faced names. That's what your friend wants - build up a resume elsewhere and do a lateral so she can helicopter…

@Peppermint: Yeah - I passed the FS exam like 5 or 6 years ago and it was made fairly clear that you were going to have to spend a number of years in less than pleasant postings before even remotely considering anything choice, unless of course you were connected in DC or in money circles - see who becomes Ambassador…

@Norton: Maybe I'm desensitized from working in finance, but I don't see that as any more than descriptive. Shit, I wouldn't mind being called that...

@gloeden31: Agreed - this is private communication that has no real news value as far as I can see.

Maybe I misread it, but didn't see any racial epithets. Other than that, unfortunate frat-boy antics that get memorialized online. Probably won't do much for his Foreign Service career, although I might make a reach here and say he was already connected if he's placed in the London office so relatively soon in his…

Actually, a useful piece of info in terms of adding to the mosaic of the human condition. In other words, if you want to know what people are capable of, and therefore what not to consider incredible, this definitely helps, if makes one more cynical.

Pretty fascinating.

John Bender: So it's sorta social, demented and sad, but social. Right?

I may be dense, but how is this anything but marginally better than using Safari to access GV?

@Aces_Over_Kings: No tail rotor. Presumably the counter-rotating rotors obviate the need for one.

An odd discussion. Anybody who's ever played a FPS (and who hasn't) knows that PC is superior to console for that kind of precision and action. Wasn't it Microsoft that initially wanted to mix PC and Xbox players on its networks until it figured out that PC players would massacre the console players? And of course,…