Always have your music with you.

It could save your life.

Update:

Well, it may save your life or it may not. As for what’s in the above link, it was pretty clear that the body armor is what really saved his life. The truth about the ill-fated iPod is almost as funny, though. Gives you an idea how intense a fire fight must be. Body armor or no, I can’t imagine being shot and not noticing.

I still think it was wonderful of the Apple employees who got together to get him a replacement unit, especially since it was an HP branded iPod.

If you can watch this without choking up

then check yourself into a morgue.

Goodbye, Britain

I’m not the only one who thinks it’s over. So does an ex-Brit, John Derbyshire.

I have been reading the recorded remarks of some of the British sailors and marines. The more I read, the worse it looks—for Britain, I mean, now plainly in its last days as a nation.

Derb wonders what a patriotic Englishman would think of all this.

Here’s what.

Embarrassing? You bet. Back in the early 1990s, I served in HMS Cornwall, from which the 15 captives were operating, and so understand a little bit about this. I’ve also spent time in captivity myself, in Zimbabwe, and have been interrogated by insurgents in Iraq and so have some limited insight into what is like to be held against one’s will.

Am I the only one who finds the conduct of the 15 on camera cringeworthy? Of course, you have to do what you are told when you are a prisoner. When your life is in peril, it is sensible to accede wholeheartedly to every demand.

Update:
Here’s a take from a retired US Army Colonel, Jack Jacobs.

Dormant Hell

In one Iraqi town, they know how to make a memorable museum.