Boston PD will report zombie invasion

See Consumerist.

Who knew Twitter was so useful?

Daniel's Big Trip

Daniel, a wounded vet in med school, is driving around the country with his wacky Boxer Rocky and blogging it.

Cool stuff! Read it, and donate. Least we can do for one of America's heroes.

RIP, Justin Mixon

From wwltv.com [requires login]:

A soldier from Bogalusa died in Iraq Sunday from wounds suffered when his vehicle came into contact with an improvised explosive device, the Department of Defense announced Monday.

Spc. Justin R. Mixon, 22, was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment.

Godspeed.

UPDATE:

More here.
Family?

Troops unite to save soldier knifed in head

Seen at Grunt Doc:

His survival relied on the Army’s top vascular neurosurgeon guiding Iraq-based U.S. military physicians via laptop, the Air Force’s third nonstop medical evacuation from Central Command to America, and the best physicians Bethesda National Naval Medical Center in Maryland could offer.

Read the whole thing at Army Times. Wow.

Oriana Fallaci, 1929-2006

Who was she? Via Wikipedia:

A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.

She has interviewed many internationally known leaders and celebrities such as the Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Willy Brandt, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Omar Khadafi, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr, Nguyen Cao Ky, Yasir Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Alexandros Panagoulis, Archbishop Makarios III, Golda Meir, Nguyen Van Thieu, Haile Selassie and Sean Connery.

After retirement, she returned to the spotlight after writing a series of articles and books critical of Islam and Arabs that aroused substantial support, controversy and accusations of racism and Islamophobia.

Probably 10 percent of my readers have heard of her. And here I am trying to entice y'all to purchase one of her books via Amazon.

Michelle Malkin has an article:

She refused to candycoat her criticisms of Islam. She refused to submit to jihadi thugs. Her books, her life, her rage and her reason serve as fiery inspirations in an era of flinching dhimmitude.*

Buy her books if you haven’t yet to see why the jihadists wanted her put in jail for “insulting Islam:”

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*dhimmitude: see here.

Today's must-read

Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, the author measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's sacrifice. Link.

via Gulf Coast Pundit

Michael Yon

An extraordinary journalist.

If you aren't familiar with his site, g'wan over there now.

Nice preview with pics here [PDF].

R.I.P, David Creed Rogers

Sad news [link]:

David Creed Rogers, 85, one of the last remaining links to Washington Parish's bloody civil rights legacy, died Monday at Good Samaritan Nursing Home.

And excellent news:

"We have some very hot leads on this case," Jim Bernazzani, special agent in charge of the FBI in New Orleans, said.

It's a shame Mr. Rogers didn't live to see justice. He surely wanted to.

But he isn't the last remaining link to those times. The last links are the people who know -- the people who need to unburden themselves by calling the FBI, before they've gotta try and explain it to St. Peter.

Get on the phone and do the right thing, folks. Help put the murderers in prison where they belong, and truly end Bogalusa's sordid legacy of lynchings and killings and bigotry.

"Fighting Words"

Seen at Blackfive (which y'all should be reading daily), Trace Adkins' song set to pics by Subsunk:



More about these Congressional Medal of Honor recipients:

SFC Paul Ray Smith, US Army. Bio.

CPL Jason L. Dunham