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[RANT:] BRING ME YOUR SNARK!

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Judging by the e-mails and comments, I can declare Friday's installment of "Fighter Jet Fight Club" another rousing success.  In a nutshell, most assumed that I had lost my dang mind. I even got a (dishonorable) mention on Eric Palmer's blog.   Check it out here .  Mr. Palmer states that I  "just don't get it" because I have the audacity to declare the F-35 ever so slightly  better than the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet...  If you do not account for cost differences and the JSF finishes its development without any more hitches .  Mr. Palmer was not alone in his indignation. How dare I declare the JSF anything else but a pile of excrement? Fighter Jet Fight Club wasn't envisioned to to determine the best fighter in the world .  It is not even envisioned to determine the best fighter for Canada, since we seem to be at odds with what we want our military to be .  Fighter Jet Fight Club was intended to do two things: Give me something to w...