Huh, is that "Radio War Nerd" aka War Nerd aka Gary Brecher aka John Carroll Dolan? I used to read his stuff all the time in the early aughties. It seemed like

Huh, is that "Radio War Nerd" aka War Nerd aka Gary Brecher aka John Carroll Dolan? I used to read his stuff all the time in the early aughties. It seemed like he was the one other person in the world who liked explosions and wasn't also taking crazy pills (i.e., literally the rest of the media corps). Dolan came up with Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames in the eXile ( Moscow in the 1990s! Wow!) then did his own thing. Ames wrote `В Россию с любовью` sometime in the aughts. Taibbi we all know. They're all still best buddies; who knows what kind of crazy stuff they got up to in 90s Moscow. Funny stuff.