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I Love War

And I mean Mmmm....MMMMMmmm do I love it. The death, the disfigurement, the despair. Just can't get enough of it. The widows and orphans running this way or that. You just can't beat it.

Wired:

"Since the start of the Iraq war, there's been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs -- and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops' time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell) considers blogs to be a valuable source of information, and a way for ordinary troops to shape opinions, both at home and abroad. This 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, "Blogs and Military Information Strategy," offers a third approach -- co-opting bloggers, or even putting them on the payroll. "Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering," write the report's co-authors, James Kinniburgh and Dororthy Denning."

Now if we can only find the people paying all these bloggers to over-estimate their own self-importance (and the importance of their profit margins) in this spinning, shitting, entropic wad of random monkey love we call the universe.

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