Victory for Martha Payne as Argyll and Bute council backs down on school dinner blog ban
A council has overturned a ban which prevented British schoolgirl Martha Payne from posting pictures of her school dinners on her blog Neverseconds.
A Day in the Life of X-47B
A visual summary of activities associated with the recent flight testing of X-47B Air Vehicle Two (AV-2) at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The testing marked the completion of the airworthiness test phase of the Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D) program. Video courtesy of Northrop Grumman
The Best, and Worst, in Kabul Military Dining
By ANDREW SANDCamp Warehouse DFAC
Rating: 4 Exploding Stars
Camp Julien DFAC
Rating: 1 Exploding Stars“The food at Camp Julien was revolting and unhealthy…. I’d rather eat shell casings….”
– Anonymous U.S. Special Operations service member
Paul K. posted this yesterday in the entry, “Notes from the Chicago Intifada.” I thank him for noticing, and providing a proper definition for, the coinage.
Coverupage (kuhv-er-up-ij) n. In journalism, the deliberate omission of vital elements of a story in order to make it politically correct. An ironic variant on “coverage.” (See Auster’s First Law of Majority-Minority Relations in Liberal Society.) First usage: VFR, 13 June 2012.
On the North River 