The interesting news article of the day:

David Iglesias is going back to Guantanamo. Iglesias, you may remember, was one of the eight infamously fired US Attorneys of the Bush Administration, along with so-called Professor McDreamy of Seattle U. Or is that allegedly so-called? Whatever.

But Ben Smith there of Politico tells me something I didn't know:

"The move has doubly powerful symbolism: Iglesias is recently famous for being fired for refusing to compromise his political independence, but he knows Guantanamo Bay well: He was the Navy defense lawyer played by Tom Cruise in the film, "A Few Good Men.""

I saw that movie on the evening of December 18, 1992. I remember that quite well. The next evening I spent in MCAS El Toro waiting to get on a C-5 that would ultimately take me to Mogadishu. Before that movie, I'd never heard of anything called a Code Red.

Now its a flavor of Mountain Dew. And children born the month that I went to Somalia will be eligible to enlist this December.