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Brisk!

It's a brisk -11.3 degrees fondly Fahrenheit this morning. But, the sun is shining, the snow is sparkling -- it's too bad it's too damned cold to go outside. There's wind chill advisories out, with a mild WNW breeze at 3 mph, a humidity of 68%, the wind chill is a cool -20 degrees (which is getting closer and closer to the magic point of -40 where both Fahrenheit and Celsius agree). We're expected to gradually warm to a mild -5 degrees today, before dipping back down to -10 tonight.

Just sayin...

DVDs would burn faster if I clicked the Burn button...

This seems not like a great strategy

Clinton Campaign Manager Is Out

Torchwood...

Why is it that a few "fucks" improve the script? Because most of us know real men or real women don't say "darn"?

I don't know why it feels so good to hear it on Torchwood. I don't watch much of our candy-assed TV anymore, but I'm not sure our language restrictions even made sense in 1958.

DVD Duplication

WoW, the $34 new DVD burner burns DVDs really fast. 18x. My poor laptop didn't read the DVD into memory as fast as the upstairs computer read and burned one...

Shocked, I'm just shocked!

Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning
By MICHAEL R. GORDON

WASHINGTON — The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret.

That is what happened to a detailed study of the planning for postwar Iraq prepared for the Army by the RAND Corporation, a federally financed center that conducts research for the military.

After 18 months of research, RAND submitted a report in the summer of 2005 called “Rebuilding Iraq.” RAND researchers submitted an unclassified version of the report along with a secret one, hoping that its publication would contribute to the public debate on how to prepare for future conflicts.

But the study’s wide-ranging critique of the White House, the Defense Department and other government agencies was a concern for Army generals, and the Army has sought to keep the report under lock and key. More