WaPo *hearts* me

My darling, fabulous, stellar, and most amusing husband just accused me of spending all day on this blog. I would like the record to state that this post was not even conceived of until 3:30 p.m. today!! HA! So, there. And I have checked my stats NOT EVEN ONCE since Monday. Brotha, pleeeze.

Abrupt topic change (and the point of this post): I was dinking around on the internet doing a little research on my son's unit - wait, that sounds terribly wrong! - on his Army brigade thingy. Because they were scheduled to go to Iraq very soon - like within the next month. (If you don't know already, I have a son. He's 20 years old and he is in the Army and stationed in Germany. And, I also know I look too hot young to be his mother! Thank you very much for saying so!] Well, I am sure that you all think I am soooo well-informed, because I'm a pretentious, psuedointellectual snob who leads you to believe that, and while I do read Shakespeare's Sister every day, I really spend most of my time at Perez Hilton and Go Fug Yourself and far less time at the Washington Post. [I am only partially kidding.]

Well, you won't believe this article that posted only 3 hours ago*!! Pentagon weighs modest troop reduction in Iraq. Yeah, yeah, yeah, haven't we been hearing that since last year or the year before? I don't really believe everything I read and I am highly skeptical of the motivation for publishing such stories, but this article makes me want to believe!! The reporter, Will Dunham, was all "modest reduction of troops" (and by modest, I think they meant "miniscule") blah blah Pentagon blah blah Iraq blah blah reduction blah blah blah. And then! The news I've been waiting for!!! In the next to the last paragraph:

One brigade -- the 2nd Brigade of the Army's 1st Infantry Division, based in Schweinfurt, Germany** -- that was due to have deployed to Iraq this month already has been put on hold by the Pentagon. One official said it was possible that brigade could be sent into Iraq in the fall for a slightly shorter stay than the usual yearlong deployment that Army units serve.[Emphasis mine.]

*as of right now.
**My son's brigade!! Yesssssssss.

Disclaimer, I would normally never tell you any information about my son's unit (ha) but this was in the Washington Post so it's really public information given out by an unnamed Pentagon official. (My next cat will be named "A source close to the Pentagon").

Thanks WaPo for making my day.