LT Nixon Rants

If you're interested, feel free to read about my new life in Thailand here . It'll be great to see some old internet faces. To make a long story short, I got married, have 3 stepsons and a girl o...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-life.html

Congrats to the lovely Caroline, from USO Girls , and the not-so-photogenic but all-around good guy, TSO, getting married. The proposal was on This Ain't Hell and she said yes in comment #5. Wa...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2010/02/internet-helping-ugly-people-get.html

The Imminent Threat Posed by the Cell Phone With all that's going on the world, one would think the federal government would be a bit more concerned with the exploding deficit, flying Unabomber...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2010/02/bureaucracy-is-expanding-to-meet-needs.html

Kate Hoit, aka GI Kate , an Iraq vet and internet buddy has an article about The Hurt Locker in Huffington Post that has solicited 400+ comments. She criticizes the film for lacking authenticit...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2010/02/artistic-license-in-war-movies.html

Apparently, the "Pope2You View" Plug-In Has some Bugs I'm not religious, but I'm not anti-religious or anything, so I decided to give the Pope's website (Pope2you.net ) a look after Il Papa cal...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2010/01/much-like-religion-in-general-popes.html

Most amazingly lame and self-serving comment of the day comes from this Senate staffer who writes in to Talking Points Memo : > My background is like probably the majority of staffers�...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2010/01/unfathomable-hubris.html

One of Those Days (Borrowed from Oddlyspecific.com ) Anyone else bummed out about the so-called Tea Party Nation convention taking place next month in Tennessee? Charging over 500 bones to tak...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-non-phonies-for-gloomy-sunday.html

File Photo of Janet Napolitano President Obama's national security team and the folks that keep America from getting blowed up has been, thankfully, a pretty decent bunch of individuals. Howev...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-wouldve-thought-that-public.html

By most standards of assessment, the last decade was more disappointing than the fact that Bill Paxton, essential comic relief to any James Cameron film, did not make an appearance in Avatar. ...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2010/01/adios-to-ohs.html

Off to Koh Samet (an small island not far from Bangkok that has cheap places to stay) for the New Year. Hope you all have good ones too! I guess I could post something about how this was the wo...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-new-year.html

From ABC This photo is the nasty pair of drawers that thankfully didn't blow a hole in Northwest Flight 253, but managed to spook the civilized world during the holidays. But, the concept of s...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/semper-ubi-sub-ubi.html

It's old, but it's a timeless classic.

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-from-bob-doug.html

Pic from SD Headliner Most people grow out of snowball fights somewhere after the age they find out Santa Claus isn't real, but before the age where they realize that women have a thing called...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/hipster-goes-mildly-repentant-on-dc.html

I'm not saying that you can't make a good argument for our continued War on Drugs, but this article by Mary Grabar has got to be a freaking joke. In a no-good, terrible waste of internet space,...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/get-off-my-goddamn-internet.html

Pajamas Media takes a trip through the city of Detroit with complete footage of abandoned buildings doubling as heroin galleries (not hard to find in Motown). He doesn't examine the riots and t...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/through-ruins-of-detroit.html

A good NCO and good milblogger thrown under the bus by petty tyrant bureauweenies. A real shame! Here's his full letter, read it all: I want to take a moment to thank all of those that are parti...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/cjs-open-letter.html

Interesting Op-Ed about how our Army officers in combat are too risk-averse , which is hampering operations and long-term objectives: > The results were striking. Many respondents said t...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/free-our-fobbits.html

I suppose you could read about Ted Kennedy's corpse being trotted out to ram through another federal entitlement program that the country can't afford...or you could go back to when life was eas...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/in-lieu-of-anything-meaningful.html

Maybe I should've listened to more Crass growing up...despite the fact that they didn't know how to sing or play their instruments. Then maybe I could've recognized what Paul Ryan (R-WI) was say...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/paul-ryan-goes-all-anti-corporate-on-us.html

Chris Dodd: Not an adequate substitute for hope in America Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone has another great article on the crony capitalism running amok in the Obama White House, where there is ...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-taibbi-latest-highlights-problem.html

Criticizing Ahmadinejad is about as intellectually taxing as calling Tiger Woods a lousy husband , but this statement needs to be repeated to permanently assure his mentally deranged status. Fro...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/crazy-dictator-says-crazy-shit.html

Well, this is where the conservative movement is at. Sarah Palin, who has strong approval amongst the right, has descended into the incredibly ridiculous . She has suggested that the Obama Birt...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/12/sarah-palin-master-of-karate-and.html

Opening Night for "Brothers" Not sure what it is about Hollywood, but when it comes to war movies about Iraq and Afghanistan, they seem to crank out more duds than a Chinese fireworks factory. ...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-day-another-crummy-iraqa-stan.html

The same water-carrier at TIME who tried to label all conservatives nihilists is back with another ridiculous defense of this horrendous Obama administration, which still continues the cult of...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/11/obots-in-media-gettin-desperate.html

Can't imagine why two derelicts breaking into an event with the President of the free world and the Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy would be such a big whoop. From NY Times : >�...

http://ltnixonrants.blogspot.com/2009/11/great-news-two-yahoos-break-into-white.html