Tuesday, February 15, 2005

The Strange Case of Ilario Pantano

The desk jockeys in the United States Marine Corps are determined to see to it that re-enlistments in the Corps plummet. As counterintuitive as that sounds, it's the explanation which comes closest to making sense of the facts of the case of Marine 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano. It is only the possibility that there is more to this case than Rowan Scarborough reports that prevents us from concluding that one of the qualifications for membership in the Marines' legal affairs office is an IQ that would freeze water.