I feel really bad about being so late in acknowledging John McKay’s eighth blogiversary™.  archy is among the small group of paleo-blogs still active. He is also getting close to finishing his first draft on his book.

Jams O’Donnell just hit his fifth at Poor Mouth, and is celebrating by scaling back so he can spend more time with his photography.

At some point I will probably update to the newest version of WordPress, but I’m still waiting for the bug fix release. I wouldn’t bother, but it hardens some things that people think might be subject to attack. The attacks won’t gain access, but it is possible they might “break something”.

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And dumb as dirt – that’s the Congress of the United States.

Doctors Without Borders sends out world maps with its fund raising letters. If I had the money I would pay them to send a world map to all 535 members of Congress. It probably wouldn’t do any good, as envelops are probably too intricate for them to deal with.

Mustang Bobby wrote:

Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House subcommittee on issues related to U.S. policy in Africa. So eyebrows went up when he expressed his concern about our role in Libya:

Where does it stop? Do we go into Africa next? I don’t want to sound callous or cold, but this could go on indefinitely around the world.

Mustang Bobby was tipped off by The Washington Monthly, and there were people in the comments at the Monthly actually saying that they could understand the confusion because Libya is considered part of the Middle East.

The only people who think that Libya is part of the Middle East are those that are as ignorant as Marino.

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