1.) Reader contest! Win a prize!* Come up with a name for this blog that doesn't make me wince every time I see it! The winning name will cleverly refer to state and paramilitary violence, suggesting the slippery boundaries between the two, while suggesting that the blog is meant to blend history and current affairs. If I ever become less lazy, this blog may actually even do some of that.
2.) If you make pancakes for your wife, keep an eye on the fucking things until she eats them. Otherwise, your elderly cat will lick off the butter and syrup. And then, because he's licked off the butter and syrup, he'll vomit. He'll vomit directly onto the pancakes. He'll do this precisely as your wife rounds the corner and comes into visual contact with the said pancakes.
And then? Cereal for breakfast.
3.) Jeff Huber is a retired U.S. Navy type, and says that the Navy offers precisely the thing to solve the Somalian pirate problem.
(*Prize is an authentic, fully certified "nothing." Win yours today!)
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"History Militia" sounds too much like a group blog. "Cliomilitia" is obscure (and a bit derivative) but might work, I suppose.
"Borderlands Chronicle" sounds too Orson Scott Card for me, but I'll throw it out there.
"Killing Time"? A bit too pointed, perhaps?
"Mr. and Mrs. Lamb" sounds a bit too much like a family storytime site.
"Police Action Report" is a bit dated.
"Kinds of Soldiery" or "Armed Republic" (inspired by). Or you could go completely obscure, like Philopoemen, Prince of the Achaeans.
"Bray's Rebellion"?
"Civil(ian) War"?
As a group, we are seriously deficient at naming things. I embarrassed myself in my own head, earlier this evening, with, "After Action Retort."
I also thought about calling the blog "LOLCats," but apparently somebody else got there first.
PVTization (PV1zation)
Privatination (PVTination)
Out-forcing
Use of Outsource
Protection Almanack
Authority 2.0
Woodrow Wilson’s Guns
Protection Money
Revolution Dress Blues
Military Industrial Duplex
Gun Barrel Gazette
Tools of Engagement
Occupied!
Elbows of the State
Insurgence Agency
Ooooooh, "military industrial duplex," that one speaks to me. It goes into the hat.
"Social Contract Killers"
"Supply and Command"
Jeremy totally wins.
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