Neanderpundit

if you’re an old fart like me

The Post office prints Bill Mauldin stamps.

When I was a kid, I used to play with my uncles old army gear. He had uniforms and packs piled in boxes in his garage, and his kids and i would dress up and run around the yard yelling at the neighbors, who happened to be korean, but were Japanese looking enough for us, and always got to be the “Nips”

Evenings, though, we’d sit in the shed and paw through the copies of ‘Stars and Stripes” and read the cartoons, mostly. None of the rest of the shit meant anything to us. So by the time I was ten, I knew who Bill Mauldin was, and when he died in 03, a little bit of me died with him.

Now, philately gets me nowhere- but when I get a piece of mail that had a Bill Mauldin stamp on it, I had to see if they still did, and they do! So yes, you can bet your ass I’ll be buying some, and sending out mail with them.

This is the kind of shit that originally brought me to his blog, and keeps me coming back. When he hits it, he hits it hard.

I’m a little late to the party, but it seems that Ace of Spades has done the dance of equivocation about the Gunwalker thing. I have been uber swamped, both with work and with helping celebrate the Ogwifes most recent circuit around the sun so I have not been able to concentrate on the subject, but when Pascal calls someone a moron, watch the fuck out. Pascal- for those who don’t know him- is smarter than you are. I don’t care who you are or what you do, he’s smarter. he may not have the highest IQ, but he’s the very best I’ve ever met at using what he has to it’s best ability, and he’s only annoying as hell about half as often as I am.

This is the funniest thing I have seen on the intertubes for a long, long time. It’s like Jackass for AV geeks

You may not think it’s funny at all, but that probably means you’re sane and normal.

Make sure you listent to the whole thing- the very last two muffled words are the funniest of all. Thanks, Harve. We need to get together again soonish.