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Overheard in NM

Exceedingly cute, exceedingly skinny, exceedingly young Latina clerk to another (laughing): “I never see you smile, Erin! Were you deprived as a child? Did you never go to the zoo?”

- Lowe’s grocery store, 4th and Griegos, Albuquerque.

By and large, life here on Jupiter is pretty entertaining.

The War Nerd: coming to a book near you

For about the last two years I’ve read “The War Nerd,” Gary Brecher’s column for the English-language Russian alternative website The eXile, religiously. While I don’t always agree with him (big surprise, since I don’t always agree with anybody, including myself), Brecher knows his military history, as well as the broad spectrum of wars, large [...]