Topix Underground

I'm guessing it gets hot in a tank. Somewhere it said they pattern the controls of modern war machines after the 'joysticks' for video games because that is what is familiar to progressively more pans-ified generations of Americans emerge from their parents' basements. The new ones are probably air-conditioned.

They're hot. When I was stationed in Vietnam I was made gunner of the crew. Only because I was a newbie and the long timers aren't going to sit down in that oven.

My brother said the worst part about Vietnam...other than the part about strangers trying to kill you....was that he said he was wet all the time because it was either raining or he was soaked in sweat.

...it's a good look for Michigan summers...very utilitarian.

There used to be a show called 'Rat Patrol'. That and 'Combat' with Vic Morrow...Twelve o'Clock High....  that shit must have been produced like 10 years after WWII ended.

Popular in Vietnam! Two ways to eat giant beetles

Popular in Vietnam! Two ways to eat giant beetles

Westmoreland should have gone Dr. Strangelove and nuked those bastards.

Last night I watched Rosemary's Baby with the sound muted while listening to the Rolling Stones and smoking pot.  That was pleasant - a lot moreso than you would think. That John Cassavettes was good in everything. The only thing that could have made that movie better is if Burgess Meredith was in it. It cheers you up just seeing him. He's like America's grandfather...a national treasure.

If I had a time machine, I wouldn't go back and kill Hitler or try to stop the Kennedy assassination. I'd go back to the first guy who thought it ok to eat mushrooms...I'd pop in, give him a sound thrashing and scold him "Bad Monkey! Bad!"...and then I'd go back to the 80's where I belong...having changed the course of human evolution.