Army pickup: I spent the week preparing for war but it looks like a camping trip. CG pickup: I shot the engine out of a drug-smuggling submarine from a helicopter, boarded it, then rescued a family and their dog off a wrecked sailboat. Now I need to clean up some birds harmed in an oil spill.

It is absolutely unacceptable in Republican politics to kill house pets with a shovel. You’re supposed to shoot them.

Haven’t WE all been through enough Kennedys?!

We’re all going to be wearing reflective belts.

Oh, Chris Hitchens and I agree.

Everyone hated de Gaulle. We still let him liberate Paris.

Yeah… I did. I prefer to end my days as Special Envoy to a New England hamlet.

I know of a retirement community where you have to be State/DoD/IC to get in. The idea of spending my final days in an eternal interagency meeting is terrifying.

One-bird Catalina squadron.