Blue Balled: Don't let this happen to you!

This is awesome. Thanks to Nancy Rommelmann for putting this out there on her blog!

What DOES it mean?

This is what the "unrelated indulgences" comment means in the title line. Bear with me, if it wasn't important, I promise I wouldn't mention it.
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What IS going on in Iraq? Not in a larger geopolitical sense, but in the everyday lives of the U.S. soldiers and people who live in the chaos of that country? I'll be damned if I know, but I am finding out as I am sucked into freelance journalist/blogger Michael Totten's posts from Iraq's front lines. Michael is doing some of the best writing I've come across on this subject. One of his latest posts is an absolutely riveting piece on a day spent on patrol in Fallujah with a group of Marines. The fact that a non-affiliated writer/blogger is out there doing this kind of quality journalism....and oh, yeah, he could be killed at any time....is staggering.

Thanks to Portland's own Nancy Rommelmann, who's very smart blog also deserves your regular attention, for turning me on to Totten's work. Click on her name to check her out.

Pictures from Michael's post.

The truth hurts....but in a painfully funny way!

If you haven't checked out Nancy Rommelmann's blog yet, do. Now!! She is so good, shooting straight, as they say "from the lip". Especially in her latest entry about...er, being waxed...um, down there! The best part is weaving a discussion she had with her aesthetician about Christopher Hitchen's latest book God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything while in the middle of the "procedure". Nice focus, Nancy.

She always tells a good story, without any bullshit, and is thankfully lousy at pulling punches. It's like having that friend who always says the stuff you want to, but don't. Food, books, religion, childhood, obese people. She covers all of it, and her commentary is dead on and so worth the bookmark. Keep it coming, NR!