The Command Post
Iraq
March 19, 2004
Has it really been a year?

Michele asked for thoughts from the contributors, and since everybody knows that I don't have any thoughts besides the occasional berserk outburst, I thought I'd share this'all instead...

A year since a whole country of Oil-For-Food starving cowards had to get liberated by some Texas know-how, but also a year since Command Post had to get built to tell you about it all. Way too many razor-thin lines being drawn by a bunch of gung-ho weekend-warrior media types embedding their heads up their posteriors to test out their new toys and satellites, so somebody had to read in between them to paint the Big Picture before the batteries ran down on everybody's clicker trying to chase down all that news flying around.

There I was, flat broke, no job prospects, suicidal, rickety computer on a cheesy dial-up, and nothing better to do that watch the cats arguing on who'd eat my corpse first and the Dead Pool turn into the Live F---ing Forever Pool. Michele gave me something to do, and I think I've done it better than rock-bottom awful at times.

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Read the rest at ATS.

Posted By Laurence Simon at March 19, 2004 10:37 AM | TrackBack
Comments

If only I were the Human Alt-F4, I could close all these windows and go play outside.

Posted by: Laurence Simon at March 19, 2004 12:42 PM

Only if you're a MicroSerf. You could hit Alt-F4 on my system all day and it wouldn't do any good.

Posted by: gus3 at March 19, 2004 07:21 PM

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