He has been identified as the oncesecret identity behind the pseudonym gary brecher, fictional author of the war nerd column. Hes defining more than a thousand battle deaths a year as a big war. Socialist germany was a big exercise in erasing the past and reconstructing it in a great big lie and. Radio war nerd subscribers suggested reposting this newsletter on yemen open to the public. Sarah vowells the wordy shipmates religion dispatches.
Here, collected for the first time, are all of gary brechers blistering war nerd. The war nerd a fat suburban data entry clerk who might actually be the pen name of exile literary critic john dolan is one of the rare exceptions to this rule, whose unfailingly misanthropic and contrarian yet welleducated and insightful perspectives on war and society manages to be both offensive if you had any mistaken. Dispatches from the games, grammar and geek underground in the early 1990s, two women were playing scrabble in suburban washington, d. Subscribe to radio war nerd on patreon were living through a massive artificial famine, right now. Not the glorified, prettied version dished out by pollywood but the fact that there were and are some awful and brutal things going on in the wide world. War is boring from drones to aks, high technology to low politics. Apr 30, 20 before your line left africa, though, it would pass over a place so slow, buried so deep in obscurity, that it doesnt even have the combustibility needed for war. John dolan writes as the war nerd, but no longer in full character as brecher, the two identities having merged. Aug 15, 2011 the outbreak of war led to an explosion in intelligencegathering activity and innovation. Were living through a massive artificial famine, right now.
Of course, the nerdhack war does not pit all techies against all journalists. A battle between two people or groups who know so much about a subject usually video games, popular shows, etc. Gary brecher is creating radio war nerd podcast patreon. Media and discussion related to the analysis and musing of john dolan aka gary brecher aka the war nerd. Oct 09, 2007 home fires features the writing of men and women who have returned from wartime service in the united states military. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the war nerd dispatches. It now includes dispatches from veterans of wars past and present. Judging by the manner the word is ejaculated by some people, youd get the impression austerity represents a form of financial waterboarding. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. That line would clip the top of sierra leone, cross the ivory coast, drive through northern nigeria. Dispatches from the meme war most common nicknames for hillary clinton in comments on conservativeleaning news sites during the 2016 election cycle hillary occurred 2,565,207 times in 1. Trust me, youll receive signlegislation updates almost daily.
Tomb raiders lara croft joins brawlhalla as playable character. Dispatches definition of dispatches by the free dictionary. The exile why i hate ww ii by gary brecher the war nerd. The act of blogging, debating, or any other form of competitive conversation between two people or groups to show how much they know about a subject to boost. Dispatch definition is to send off or away with promptness or speed. John carroll dolan born july 1955 is an american poet, author and essayist. Semiotics definition is a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics. Staying home is definitely not an option this time.
If war nerd is a fake and nothing should surprise me these days on tinterwebz then i am sorry to hear it. The war nerd dispatches kindle edition by gary brecher. Subscribe to radio war nerd through the shows patreon page. The war nerd relly should be watching more youtube, and looking for ypg tags and flags. Lack of manpower, the theory goes, will doom the alawites. In addition to reading the war nerds columns on pando, you can support. Find war nerd dispatches by gary brecher at blurb books. The war nerd dispatches is now available as an ebook and 100 copies.
I used to like some of his columns about what war was. Jan 01, 2008 the war nerd a fat suburban data entry clerk who might actually be the pen name of exile literary critic john dolan is one of the rare exceptions to this rule, whose unfailingly misanthropic and contrarian yet welleducated and insightful perspectives on war and society manages to be both offensive if you had any mistaken. Listen to the radio war nerd podcast subscribe here with guest gunnar hrafn jonsson of iceland public radio on the massacre in orlando and how online islamic state jihadis are dealing with battlefield defeats and the shrinking caliphate. Deconstructing austerity, which once meant stormy weather austerity a much despised term.
The outbreak of war led to an explosion in intelligencegathering activity and innovation. Radio war nerd update at the end of 2015, we started these radio war nerd podcasts. In this, vowell is a champion, redacting theological debates and pequot war skirmishes to swift effect. Possibly the worst body of representatives since before the civil war. Worse, their campaign of war has been incredibly successful in reducing us to a population of slaves. Most common nicknames for donald trump in comments on liberalleaning news sites. Part war commentator, part angry humorist ala bill hicks, brecher inveighs against pieties of all stripes liberian generals, dick cheney, u. Sure, you dont have a whole lot of company to discuss various events with, in fact there arent even a few people who are even remotely interested in the events of world war ii. By gary brecher if you drew a line across africa at about ten degrees north of the equator, youd intersect most of the wars going on in the world. War is forcing people to do what the invaders want them to, exactly in the way the invaders want.
This is a very lively zone, a real demographic ring of fire. Read 288 posts by gary brecher and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the worlds large. Semiotics definition is a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural. In nw yemen, home of the yemeni shia whove fought off a saudifinanced invasion, the coalition of invaders has settled on a slower, more effective strategy. A raucous, offensive, and sometimes amusing cliffsnotes compilation of wars both. When it starts raining stupid, you have to figure that pretty soon the stories about evil drugs will start pelting down. This means were starting weekly radio war nerd podcasts in december.
Ain issa and brigade 93 got taken by liwa thuwar alraqqa, not by the ypg, and da3sh paid their commander the compliment of a hit squad in their suicide raid from over the turkish border to kobane. From drones to aks, high technology to low politics. It seems like we can keep this going and turn it into something with real strategic significance. Jun 12, 2015 this was particularly emphasized by the fact that the second world war was excised entirely from east german education at the time, and they were only taught about the great war what the rest of the world was calling world war i. The fall of the exile for all those wondering what the save the exile fundrasier banner is all about, here it is as simply as it can be phrased. Doing the math on alawite casualty numbers the sunday telegraph said recently that assads syrian arab army saa will collapse soon, because onethird of syrian alawite males of military age have already died fighting the sunni. At first we did a show every two weeks, but we promised that if the donations came in wed move to a weekly format. On adamss campus, this sparks a prank war between the nerd frat and the prestigious frat that includes a panty raid on a sorority, the distribution of nude photos of a woman made fair game by her association with one of the jock frat brothers, and a straightup rape played as comic, in which one of the nerds uses a costume to impersonate. The war nerd ebook by gary brecher 9781593763022 rakuten. This site is owned and operated by bright mountain media, inc. Im joined now by the war nerd, gary brecher, aka john dolan, live from kuwait. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. As with most fronttable nonfiction, the wordy shipmates is a book quickly read, leaving in its wake the selfsatisfied sheen of a new yorker profile read during a long cherry blossom bath.
Is chuck mertzs 30oddminute interview last saturday really the only time anybodys talked to. War nerd collects his most opinionated, enraging, enlightening, and entertaining pieces. Home fires features the writing of men and women who have returned from wartime service in the united states military. Jun 17, 2009 in this, vowell is a champion, redacting theological debates and pequot war skirmishes to swift effect. Semiotics definition of semiotics by merriamwebster. Read the war nerd by gary brecher available from rakuten kobo. A member of the armed forces mentioned in dispatches or despatches, mid is one whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which his or her gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described. I wanted to suggest that in the nerdhack war, we should be careful not. The project originated in 2007 with a series of personal accounts from five veterans of the iraq war on their return to american life. Worse, their campaign of war has been incredibly successful in reducing us to a population of. Pena, and marty baboor, a newly arrived supernerd student from india. War is boring from drones to aks, high technology to low. War of the babies in takis magazine the war nerd talks about babies, the greatest weapon of the 20th century. A few days ago, a suicide bomber got on a luxury commuter bus in northern nigeria.
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