As I begin to fill the screen I join the ranks of those that I have always made fun of. (and I just ended my first blog sentence with a preposition.) With countless arenas of entertainment for us out there on the web I have always been reluctant to throw my two cents in and add more to the saturation of seemingly mindless entertainment. However, after receiving a kick in the rear about the merits of how writing anything is better than writing nothing, here goes something. I have never kept a journal and never intend for this to be a chronicle of my life, but instead want to highlight one or two random things every day that I have found that the mass media seems to overlook.
So, with all of that said, today's little bit of Americana comes from the first chapter of the book Fiasco. Operation Desert Fox was a little-known part of our containment policy against Iraq, and the book discusses how many are now realizing how successful it was at the time. For anyone that might actually read this, (congratulations on being the first one to ever read a blog from me!) a DoD piece can be found here http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/desert_fox/, and of course there is always the Holy Grail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Desert_Fox.
This concludes my brief inaugural posting. For the English freaks out there, I ended a sentence with a preposition, started one with a transition, and referenced Wikipedia. Besides that, however, the experience has definitely been cathartic and I will definitely return tomorrow. I will start working on a decent closing line, but until then- the Sports Guy was definitely right this week when again discussing how Boston fans are now just as bad as New York fans.
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Chris has entered the blogosphere...who'd have thought? Well written and I'll check back for more!
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