Eyes Like a Bat, My Feet are Flat, and My Asthma's Getting Worse

Nick Confessore at TAPped reads the tea leaves—and the memos on mobilization of inactive reservists—and concludes that a draft will soon be necessary given our current "operations tempo." From this he infers that we need to start thinking about the best and fairest way to structure the draft before "the need for one becomes inavoidable." But, of course, it's always avoidable. Maybe it's time to tell the band to slow down the tempo.