Hello
Good morning!
My name is Carl Prine.
I’ve never blogged before. I’m probably not going to be particularly good at it unless you help me along. But I’ve got some ideas about what this joint is going to be.
My notion is that this blog will be highly democratic. We will talk. Mostly, we’ll talk about war because that’s kind of what I’m been doing through much of my adult life: Training or fighting in them (I’m a veteran of the Marine and Pennsylvania Army National Guard infantry –0311 and 11B– including a 2006 tour in Anbar) or writing about the same.
My day job makes me an investigative reporter of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. There, I cover war, terrorism, football and all sorts of other things. Most people who watch TV remember me from CBS 60 Minutes or the PBS series on chemical terrorism, but mostly my gig involves finding really smart people, asking them to say interesting things, and then figuring out how this democracy will talk about it all.
So that’s what we’re going to do here, too. We’re going to talk about battle and reporting and find smart people to interview and then we’re going to converse about like adults because these are serious topics and we’re a nation at war.
I’m going to be intentionally provocative at times. I’ll tell crass jokes. I warn you that I’ll be combative and pointlessly obstinate but often enough vaguely sane.
So, let’s cross the LoD.
