Looks like Pareene gets all his best stories from Radar. No surprise there.

Shouldn't Julia Allison and her crew be dancing with the bear, or at least the Balk?

Looks like Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Probably would govern like Castro. Do Not Want.

Have you ever actually done any aerial hunting? It's a blast!

I am so voting for her.

This whole exercise was a tremendous waste of time.

It was hilarious. The best David Brooks column ever.

Excellent! Plus, she's cute too. Julia Allison will totally vote for her.

Load the catapults! Infantry form up for advance! Archers ready!

Democrats! If you find yourself riding alone in green fields with the sun on your face do not be troubled, for you are in Elysium, and your hopes are already dead.

As a six year veteran of the US Army, enlisted and officer, I can sadly confirm that this is the sort of behavior sometimes engaged in by combat troops who need to blow off steam.

When one faces death every day, gallows humor comes to the fore.

I recycle all my Julia Allison pictures.

Sheila over at Gawker should be promoted for linking to this story.

Pareene got him a nice kitten.

"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on."

--Augustus De Morgan

I went to Sardinia once looking for the King of the Sardines, and some cheese crackers.