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I came across an article on Salon entitled “How to leave a soldier” that has apparently been making ripples across the blogosphere. It absolutely infuriated me, and I knew I had to write about it. Before I get into the article, though, let me explain some things in the interest of full disclosure. My significant other is a Marine. We live together in North Carolina while he’s stationed at Camp Lejeune. The first year of our relationship was long distance, with him in North Carolina and me in Florida. We’re together now, but the Corps brings us apart occasionally for...

FRIDAY PM/SATURDAY AM UPDATE: So Avatar was done in by a chick flick no less! Despite the monster winter storm on the East Coast, Relativity's sappy military-themed love story Dear John headed to a much bigger than expected $13.8 million opening Friday from 2,969 North American theaters. Which means the movie, a military love story based on the Nicholas Sparks novel and distributed by Sony/Screen Gems, will definitely break Avatar's 7-week reign atop the domestic box office Friday despite higher 3D ticket prices. G.I. Joe's Channing Tatum and Mamma Mia!'s Amanda Seyfried are on course for a $32M weekend compared...

Up until 5/17, John McCain had had a great recent run in the conservative blogosphere. His strident defense of the war in Iraq played to his strengths in the community and his regular blogger conf. calls seemed to revive at least a glimmer of this "Straight Talk" magic. Any immigration legislation co-sposored by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), and signed by Pres. Bush, will kill any and all McCain sympathy online. The issue plays on everyone of the bloggers fears about McCain: outside of Iraq, he is too willing to put progress over principal; he is too cosy with the MSM...

Her head covered by what looked like a bad Indian blanket from the Ward Churchill Souvenir Shop, Jennifer Wilbanks Saturday was led by a couple of cops through the Albuquerque airport to board a flight for Atlanta, where she had some bigtime explaining to do. Veiled as she was, Ms. Wilbanks somewhat resembled Michael Jackson's urchin, "Blanket," back when Michael was dangling him over that hotel railing in Berlin. Unlike "Blanket," however, my guess is Ms. Wilbanks would have welcomed the sensation of tumbling into a crowd of milling Germans right at that point. Jennifer Wilbanks, of course, was the...