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Tim Pawlenty

I remember hearing an offhand comment from either Ken Rudin or Ron Elving on their podcast about Tuscon and Sarah Palin: "No one was asking Tim Pawlenty what he thought.  It was just her."  Well, that's a damned shame, because Tim Pawlenty is pretty awesome.  Jon Stewart interviewed him last week:

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And They Called Him 'Zbig'

I want every one of my favorite naval bloggers to watch this interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski.  I know, I know, Zbigniew Brzezinski, that Peanut Farmer's lefty National Security Advisor?  Am I aware that the naval bloggers I read range from conservative to more conservative?

Sure, but check out the three minute excerpt below where Brzezinski shares his worries about the People's Liberation Army interfering in Chinese politics.

The Evacuation from Dunkirk to Dover

I just finished the section of Songs of the Damned where Hunter Thompson is writing about his time in Saigon right before the American evacuation.  He interviewed Loren Jenkins, the Newsweek bureau chief in Saigon in '75, who'd just been to a the nuts-and-bolts planning session for getting people out of the city that really highlights how difficult it is to get people out of a war zone:

Pete Postlethwaite

Yesterday I had bits of my skull pulled out by a military dentist wielding pliers and realized that the Bright Eyes song ‘Light Pollution’ isn’t an ode to socialism, like I thought, but rather an allegory for the failure of radical politics in America.

Oh, and Pete Postlethwaite died.

The Mostly Unwatchable Movie About Ethan Green

So I just forced myself to sit through a 2005 movie called "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green." I hate to say anything bad about a movie that features Richard Diehle sneaking into the Republican National Committee in drag queen-meets-construction worker pastiche in order to sabotage George W. Bush's reelection, but...