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IN DETAIL WORTH A LOOK

The CASR In Detail series of online web papers on Canadian Forces procurement issues is definitely worth your time. The papers on the CF-18 and maritime helicopter project were excellent "story so far" synopses. This week, Matthew Fisher comes up with an interesting new approach to the urban combat vehicle problem.

CAN'T ARGUE WITH THAT

It must be really nice to have a kinder, gentler military you can work things out with. Wish all militaries could be like that.

(NB: If anyone's really still denigrating Bush for joining the National Guard to defer the draft, obviously I'm not there with that. But there is absolutely nothing wrong, to my mind, with criticizing the sitting president for evidence, garnered through military records, of being a silver-spooned son of privilege who always took the easy way out. That is the valid charge here, and it speaks to character.)

HE HAD ME AT "DARK CLARK"

IMHO, the current leading candidate for best blog entry of 2004.

I'M SO PRETTY, OH SO PRETTY...

Pace this entry on our new sister blog (link down; see "Found on the Web," Feb. 7), I suspect I'm partly responsible for the origins of this particular little Googlebomb. Which just helps make my life that much more complete.