Andy Goes To Iraq

More negativity from the liberal media. This piece is about the unit, largely composed of New Englanders, at the hospital I visited in Mos...

I didn't decide to stop blogging, I was just flat on my back for a few days. Frankly, I think I earned it, having spent the previous 24...

Well, I made it home in one piece, albeit with a nasty little chest cold (courtesy of the freezing-cold plane from Afghanistan to Germany) a...

Courtesy of the free wireless at the USO Center here at the airport. I'm hopefully leaving in the next couple of hours. I should be in...

Massage review: I've had better. I've had cheaper. But never have I had both at once. Show review: Best crowd we've had so fa...

Well, there's good news and there's bad news. The bad news, as I mentioned in my last post, is that the place kind of has a bombed-...

1. Wow, did the Russians do a number on Afghanistan. Talk about a third world country. 2. I have probably met about 50 or 60 contractors and...

They call Balad “Mortar-ritaville” because here we basically get hit with mortars on a constant basis. At least, that’s the contention of ev...

If you look at the last post and read the first comment, you'll find Dan Weissman pulling "physics nerd" rank on the United St...

That would be me sitting at the head of the dining table in Saddam Hussein's palace. Saddam, of course, had 55 palaces in Baghdad alone,...

Casey says I can be something of a downer, which I think is just ridiculous.

After last night’s emotional whirlwind, it was kinda nice to have a project to focus on today. That project: waking up really early to fly ...

Iraq has a lot of birds. There's one kind in particular that you see everywhere. They look like mockingbirds, and I'm hoping that...

At this point, of course, I'm feeling a little better. Last night's show was really great -- everyone stepped it up a notch, althou...

They don't have sand here, they have dust. It sticks to your boots and to your clothes and to the outside of your car and the inside of...

I've been trying to figure out how to explain Kuwait to people. Most of the interesting stuff I've encountered here has been indoor...

Okay, so: cricket. What is the deal with that? A truly incomprehensible sport.

We learned today that just because you don't have a driver's license, that's no reason you can't drive a huge fucking M-1 ta...

Owen (Al's brother) lives in France and showed up toting what he calls his "atheist books." Sure enough, it's a work by R...

Mine started, oh, 32 hours ago, I think, in Washington, which I think is part of the United States. It's ending in my hotel room in Kuw...