The Military Ritual of Dip is Alive and Well

Jammed in the back of a deuce-and-a-half with nowhere to spit, I learned fast that in the Army the ritual matters as much as the nicotine, and Black Buffalo is built for the people who refuse to give up either.

War Tourist Dispatches #3: Patagonia, Land of Fire

As Patagonia burns and Argentina reaches for an old, familiar villain, Israeli backpackers are being cast as arsonists on the strength of rumor, recycled myth, and the comforting lie that disaster always has a single foreign hand behind it.