America is at the mall

No doubt.

From OPFOR

Michael Totten is heading back to Iraq

On My Way to Iraq

I’ll be spending some quality time in Iraq over the next two and a half months doing consulting work, journalism, and video – first in the northern Kurdistan region and then in Baghdad and the heart of the Sunni Triangle

Photo copyright Patrick S. Lasswell

This time I’m going to give you some video as well as writing and photographs. Stay tuned for taped interviews with Kurdish civilians and officials, and also some video postcards of what this place actually looks like. Kurdistan always shocks people when they see it for the first time. It doesn’t look anything like the hellish images that come out of Baghdad.

I’ll be there for a month or so, then will come home for a short break. Then I’m off to Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle for two weeks with the American military.

I need body armor and combat zone insurance for Baghdad. And I’d like to pick up a new handheld video camera for Kurdistan. I want to give you the highest quality video footage possible over Internet broadcasts. Spending 10,000 dollars on a professional camera would be a waste of money for Internet video, but it would be nice to pick up a 1,000 dollar camera if possible. Best not to waste the opportunity using a cheap one with a small cell phone camera sized lens.

Any donations you can send my way via Pay Pal will help me give you the best content possible, and will help keep me alive and insured when I finally make it, and long last, to Baghdad and the war.

Read the rest here.

I know I’ve learned a lot about what’s really happening in the Middle East through Michael’s reporting. In the past couple of years he’s been to Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon and Israel giving us an inside view of what’s happening on the ground. That’s worth at least a couple of bucks.

Please go to Michael Totten’s site and hit the Pay Pal button for a few dollars.

Blogging is dead

WuzzaDem has the details:

Studio B: Don’t Blink

Damn.

Late to the party once again.

Update: I’m not the only one.

This just in — Canada has discovered this thing called Internet.

“Liberation.”