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One for the external memory drive:

Protein Wisdom - The Big Picture(s)

It’s long, but an engaging read and goes by quickly, and is the sort of thing you’ll want to have printed out and folded up in your wallet just in case you ever find yourself on a cable talking heads show (or a dinner party) where some moron has just said to you “Yeah? Name one example!” as if you carry around that sort of documentation with you. Well now you do!

It also touches on, entirely incidentally, the reasons why I read pretty exclusively the British press. Newer readers will see why I’ve been named your local source for distant newspaper content, but they might not have heard the reason why lately: I know vastly more about what this country is up to inside of this country and in the world by reading foreign media than I do domestic media. The important, stuff, anyway. And without having to glue my eyelids open or develop a barbiturate dependency.

National Review - Revenge of the Tribes
Mideast Muslims aren’t American Methodists. By Rich Lowry

In September 1898, an outnumbered British-led army battled the forces of a Muslim fanatic in Omdurman, Sudan. The Brits unleashed machine-gun fire and artillery on the primitive warriors and suffered a loss of 48 dead and 434 wounded, while killing 9,700, wounding 13,000 and capturing 5,000 of the enemy. Winston Churchill, who was present, called it “the most signal triumph ever gained by the arms of science over barbarians.” The British ruled Sudan for another five decades.

In October 1993, badly outnumbered American troops battled the forces of a Somali clan leader in Mogadishu. We unleashed machine-gun fire and helicopter gunships on the primitive warriors and suffered 18 fatalities and 73 wounded to as many 5,500 Somali killed and wounded. It was a fight nearly as lopsided as the Battle of Omdurman, but the U.S. was out of Somalia within a year.

Lucky Winston.