Too bad Generation M doesn’t seem to devour Doonesbury, still one of the best commentaries on politics and culture this side of the Daily Show (maybe we do read it, but I haven’t much talk about Trudeau’s strip, or its excellent site on Slate, which is a good way for newbies to catch up on the strip). Now Trudeau’s launched The Sandbox, a compilation of posts he’s culled from the actual blogs of soldiers at war at this moment. It’s a decidedly simple and brilliant notion. The creator writes:

The Sandbox’s focus is not on policy and partisanship (go to our Blowback page for that), but on the unclassified details of deployment — the everyday, the extraordinary, the wonderful, the messed-up, the absurd. The Sandbox is a clean, lightly-edited debriefing environment where all correspondence is read, and as much as possible is posted. And contributors may rest assured that all content, no matter how robust, is currently secured by the First Amendment.

Here’s a report on The Sandbox’s launch from the Daily News.

Here’s a link to an interview with soldier/milblogger/author Paul Riekhoff, part of SMITH’s Back Home From Iraq series, written by Michael Slenske. Here’s a previous post on milblogs.