1. I’ve been enjoying Fox News’ coverage the best so far. I’m limited to what the networks air, and this is way better than what Tom, Dan, and Peter have to offer. I like the way they’ve got the screen set up: commentator on one side, correspondent video on the other side, a banner underneath, and the ticker on the bottom.
2. I hope Fox’s crew on the move with U.S. Troops can show us more than “the tanks are moving across the desert and, oh, there’s a helicopter that’s kind of following us, and okay, now we’re stopping.” Although I guess for us to see something interesting one of the tanks would have to blow up in our faces.
4. It tickles me that one guy just mentioned a “battlefield confab.” My mom occasionally gets stuck on a word or phrase when she gets excited about an issue, and the last time this happened, that word was “confab.” “Bespeaks of an attitude” was another good one.
5. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the emergency sirens here go off except for their ritual monthly testing (first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m.). Maybe once when there was a tornado on the way. I hate seeing the correspondents standing there and having to put their gas masks on when the sirens go off. I’m afraid I’m going to see something unexpected and disastrous happen in real time, like when the second plane hit the south tower.
6. “Shock and Awe” sounds even sillier when people with British accents say it.
7. We’re the “Coalition” now. I guessing being “Allies” is out of style. As with all trends, it’ll skip this generation of wars and be back for the next one, maybe in time for WWIII (provided this current situation doesn’t devolve into that).
8. Phrase of the Day that I’m already sick of: “boots on the ground.”
