A Conversation with MILF Force One

Happy, happy, joy, joy; happy, happy, joy, joy; happy, happy, joy, joy; happy, happy, joy, joy; happy, happy, joy, joy; happy, happy, joy, joy; happy, happy, joy, joy, joy! Can anyone tell me what that's from?

AskMen.com: 5 Drinks Your Father Drank

AP: Kenyans Recruited to Fight in Somali Civil War

Qaddafi to Italian Women: Convert (Fox, Guardian)

CNN: Scientist reveals life as a prostitute

CNN: Zakaria: No one thinks hikers are spies - I disagree with Zakaria on a few points, but his perspective on these issues is an interesting one.

CNN: Disarming the Velvet Revolution

BBC: Age of cyber warfare is 'dawning' - Yawn.

BBC: Fears al-Qaeda is bound for Mali's fabled desert town [Timbuktu]

Guardian: Miliband calls for majority of Taliban to be reintegrated into Afghan society - Good luck with that, Dave.

Guardian: Speed cameras - the bigger picture - Everyone should read this article.

Guardian: Gallery: Hippopotamuses attack a crocodile on the Nile

Times: British Army Tells Soldiers to Bribe Taliban With 'Bags of Gold'

Times: Muslim teachers and students reject Darwin - To some, this is the ultimate outrage. To me, it's a non-issue. Ardent Darwinians are every bit as closed-minded and dogmatic as rabid Creationists, so the fact that Islamists reject Darwin is immaterial to me.

Times: Scramble for survival: the helicopter medics who risk death to save others

Times: Photo Gallery: Afghanistan

AFP: Post-Saddam Iraq demands right to nuclear power

AFP: N. Korea unlikely to give up nuclear weapons: US expert - The irony is that this guy gets paid to say something that I could have told the AFP for free.

AFP: Russia to boost naval presence: Medvedev - This is precisely what the world needs: more broken-down Russian naval garbage clogging major waterways.

AFP: Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine create joint brigade: ministry - Good for them! The European "battle groups" and the "Franco-German" brigades are sort of a joke, really, but I think this has the potential to be a very good thing, particularly with Poland and Lithuania as NATO members, and Ukraine was a NATO hopeful that won't be allowed in due to everyone's pants-wetting collective fear of a resurgent Russia.

UPI: Iran warns it may produce S-300 system - Out of what? Rocks and sand? Iran is not Russia. Making AK-47 rifles is one thing, making an S-300 missile system that even the Russians can't reliably make work is quite another. Who do they think they're kidding?

Commentary (Michael Totten): Damascus Reverts to Form

Starship Modeler: USS Poseidon - For anyone who saw and enjoyed J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movie a few months back; and for anyone who, like me, thought the Kelvin was really cool, Starship Modeler has an original series version of the Kelvin. It's cool. If you're a Trek fan, go check it out.

And, just for grins, a conversation between me and MILF Force One, a girl I used to hang out with in college. This was by text Sunday morning, when I was still in bed and she was going grocery shopping after her bartending shift. (She lives on the West Coast, so she's three hours behind my Van Diemen's Station time zone.)

MILF Force One: Where's my early morning shopping buddy?
The Fly: Totally. I'm like a UAV pilot, providing support by remote.
MILF Force One: You're the best. So what aisle are the bagels on?
The Fly: Bagels are on the bread aisle. This is so easy! Ask me another one!
MILF Force One: LOL You made my night!

Sometimes, you just have to sit back and enjoy the simple things in life. Until they show up, have a great Wednesday, folks.