Famous drinker F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” Good line, flawed logic.

Good line, flawed logic. 

For example: “Marine infamous for urinating on Taliban corpses helps foil girlfriend’s alleged hit-man plot” reads a late April headline in the Washington Post, and somehow, some way, the story’s actually even stranger than that. Former Marine Staff Sergeant Joseph Chamblin was part of the scout sniper platoon who, following a 2012 firefight in Afghanistan, pissed on the dead bodies of enemy fighters. Someone in the platoon videotaped it, and later the video was uploaded to YouTube. Everyone involved, including Chamblin, saw their military careers go poof. And that was... Read More