Gary Sterne, 43, discovered the huge “Maisy Battery” after he found a crinkled map which fell out of an old pair of US serviceman’s trousers at a military memorabilia fair in Stockport. Gary Sterne discovered the Maisy Battery, an extensive installation “the size of four football pitches” It turned out to be an invasion map for Omaha Beach, which included an area marked “area of high resistance”. Mr Sterne, a

What’s missing from this study? Women and gay men are likely to be the worst drivers, a new study has shown. Research has revealed that both perform poorly in tasks involving navigation and spatial awareness when compared to heterosexual men. Psychologists at Queen Mary, University of London, who conducted the study, believe the findings mean driving in a strange environment would be more difficult for gay men and women than for

Bill on negative campaigning, from Politico: Clinton also let his audience glimpse the scars of his White House years. “Nobody would like it better than us if you could get that personal vilification out of there, because nobody’s been vilified more than we have,” he said, after noting that he thought Hillary and McCain could run a respectful campaign. “One of the problems with laying down and turning the other

Granted, many conservatives are disenchanted with Mike Huckabee.  Some of that disenchantment is based on policy matters.  Some of that disenchantment is with the role identity politics is playing in his campaign. Nevertheless, let us savor moments in which people like Josh Marshall and his fellow travelers at TPM feverishly work to crack Huckabee’s “crypto-evangelical code” about the “vertical politics” of taking America up, rather than down. It apparently does

Having glanced at the horizon of the GOP race, I have some follow-up thoughts about the Dems.  Actually, they are closer to musings.  Like Excitable Andy, I’m “just airing” them, albeit without the conspiracy theories. At the moment — as you likely noticed – Obama fever is consuming swaths of the media and the blogosphere.  To be sure, Ezra Klein’s rapture will be marked as a classic in the genre, but it is by no means

Sure, when you’re desperate: It goes against religious taboos in Iraq to involve women in fighting, but three recent suicide bombings carried out by women could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate. The female suicide attacks come as U.S.-led coalition forces are increasingly catching militants suspected of training women to become human bombs or finding evidence of efforts by al-Qaida in Iraq to recruit women, according to military records. With coalition

Increase your word-hoard, c/o Protein Wisdom!  Today’s special word: snarge (n.): “”Snarge…it’s what’s left after a bird hits an airplane, goes through an engine. There are no feathers or any other kind of remains of the bird left except blood, guts.” Bon appetit!

Via Memeorandum, some sad news from hilzoy at Obsidian Wings: Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G’Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July. Andy was a wonderful person: decent, honorable, generous, principled, courageous, sweet, and very funny. The world has a horrible hole in it that nothing can

I really had not planned on writing more on this subject, but the sheer number of extreme reactions — ranging from oozing Obamamania on the Left to the unwise bashing of Huckabee supporters  — has goaded me into it. Well, that and Byron York, who seems to believe that Iowa “wasn’t about infrastructure at all,” somehow overlooking Huckabee’s organized networks of evangelical conservative Christians, home-schoolers, and gun-rights groups.  You would think

In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted the case of Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi stringer working for the Associated Press with a history of taking staged photographs of Islamic terrorists, who was detained by the US military as a security threat in April 2006. In the last update to this story, an article that ran at Harper’s (and excerpted at Editor & Publisher)  smearing the US military was found to be authored by Scott Horton