Well, they both have four letters....

[sigma7]

Big trouble at the New York Times Magazine this morning, as an editors' note reveals that one of the women who appeared in last week's cover story on female Iraq veterans never served in Iraq and might have made up much of what she told reporter Sara Corbett in her interview.

In the original article, 27-year-old Amorita Randall claimed to have been stationed in Iraq during 2004. She also said that she suffered a brain injury during a roadside attack, in which her Humvee was hit by an I.E.D. Today, the Times writes that, "Based on the information that came to light after the article was printed, it is now clear that Ms. Randall did not serve in Iraq, but may have become convinced she did."

A few post-publication revelations seem to have revealed that while Randall stands by her story, official Navy records show that she was not in Iraq, but Guam.

On the lighter side, re: BSG, would it have killed them to at least use the Dylan version? Or Hendrix? C'mon.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Re: BSG - Doing it the way they did let them use the part they did last week without it being immediately obvious as what it was. :)

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Eh, good point; either version is more or less instantly recognizable and iconic.

I'm still sticking with the whole "Cylons spiked the water supply" explanation for the buttloads of WTFery the last two eps.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

And one would expect trying to license the more original versions were probably prohibatively expensive.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and we don't want the DVD releases to get WKRPed into the next century....

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Quite.

Although I'm still waiting to get season two. May's right around the corner, at least. ;)

[bishop282.livejournal.com]

Well, Guam is close to Okinawa. According to Jack "Surrender Now" Murtha, Okinawa is just over the horizon from Iraq. Maybe she could see Iraq from her post in Guam.