STARBUCKS = NOT EVIL

I don't think I've ever actually been in a Starbucks, or even had their coffee. Mostly I know them by reputation: they're everywhere (except where I live), and they're an "evil" symbol of corporate sprawl whose windows make fun crashy sounds during anti-globalization riots.

Turns out that they're also supporting the troops by supplying some free coffee. Sgt. Stryker has the details.

FLAMES A' GETTIN' HIGHER!

Sgt. Stryker has a brief history of napalm, from its humble gasoline-naphthenate-palmitate origins to its current incarnation as kerosene-polystyrene-benzene. He writes this to take the DoD to task for preferring to use the politically-correct term "firebomb" (because the word "napalm" makes hippies cry). He suggest a different method of handling the language usage:

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So, DoD spokes[man, person, it, whatever], the next time a reporter asks if we used napalm, be truthful and say something like, "Yes we used incendiary firebombs to destroy the enemy, but we don't call it napalm anymore."

Reporter: "What do you call it now?"

DoD spokesman: "We like to think of it as, Victory..."

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It's an excellent post, with several examples of how napalm comes in handy during combat operations. Well worth a read for anyone who (like me) has previously only heard the bad side of incendiaries.

NOTE: This one goes out to my brother Tom, who, when playing violent video games, always prefers the flame weapons. He is also the source (as far as I and Google know) of the quote, "It ain't a party without napalm!"

DIGGING UP THE DEW

I'm not a big Mountain Dew fan, although the caffeine makes it necessary on occasion. I never gave a thought to the origin of this peppy beverage, but apparently PhotoDude has. It seems that it is NOT the bastard offspring of Canada Dry's Wink, but actually dates back to the early 60's, with a 7-up-like ancestor that got its start in the early 40's. PhotoDude has the whole story.

I'm dedicating this post to my brother Tom & nephew Michael, two of the Dewinest dudes I know.

GRAND THEFT BLOGGO

Susie wrote this. It's too short to excerpt, and too on-point for me to comment on. So I'll just steal it whole & give her a link:

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You know you are spending too much time on your computer when you are leafing through a book looking for a particular passage, and for a split second you try to hit Ctrl+F to find a keyword in the book.....

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