New Magazine Article! And Other Posts

So Joe and Kamala went down to Georgia to stump for their voting bill and campaign against the Filibuster. One can debate the wisdom of going to Georgia and comparing people to Jeff Davis, Bull Conner and George Wallace and asking folks whose side they're on. But doing so the day after the Georgia Bulldogs win the college football national championship? Can't these people do anything right? 

And, uh, Joe? Bull Connor, George Wallace, Jeff Davis and the whole lot of segregationists were Democrats. Remember when you used to brag about knowing George Wallace? The Democrats have always been the party of slavery, secession and Jim Crow and work very hard till this day to keep schools segregated. That's whose side you're on Mr. mass-incarceration. 

The Times of Israel reports: 'Life in the opposition is tough. Six months after losing the premiership, Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu is busy fending off challenges to his enduring control of the party.' Bibi is fighting back of course. Bibi, It's time for a heart to heart. It's time to move on. Write your memoirs. Go on a speaking tour in the US. You'll make millions. Pop in on your friend Donald in Mar-a-Lago.  We can't get around to crowning you Israel's greatest PM if you won't leave.

The New York Giants fired coach Joe Judge yesterday. What took them so long? It's now been ten years since the Giants won the Super Bowl. During that time, they've finished above .500 twice and been to the playoffs once with no post-season victories. In the last six years the Giants have had three head coaches. The Giants are now in a period of extended suckitude. Something is wrong.

Our very latest article, in this month's edition of Military History Matters. This one's about the Battle of the Chinese Farm on the Sinai during the Yom Kippur War: 'The Egyptian attack across the Suez Canal on 6 October 1973 caught the Israelis by surprise. Egyptian sapper teams crossed the canal and neutralised Israeli defences on the east bank. At the same time, engineers built dozens of bridges across it. When the inevitable Israeli armoured counter-attack came, the Egyptians met them with teams armed with RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) and Sagger anti-tank guided missiles. The Egyptians destroyed dozens of Israeli tanks that day. By the end of the second day, the Egyptian Second and Third Armies, numbering a combined five divisions and 80,000 men, were ensconced on the east bank.' Click on through to read the rest...

Below, for no damn reason, a retro-commercial:

We haven't seen that commercial since it aired in the mid-80s. They still look so cool, don't they? We don't think we had one, but we did have the Sky Fighter.