We can be stupid together

Baghdad is lovely this time of year, that’s what we’ve heard anyway. In a few days, we’ll be able to ask an Oregon man, who’s going to see it for himself, from several thousand feet up–in a lawn chair.

Lawn chair ballooning has been the pass time of crazy dudes for a couple decades now. All you need is a chair, a cooler, some balloons and a disregard for your own safety. But Kent Couch is about to one-up those who came before him. He’s going to hover over Baghdad, and he’s going to do it with Fareed Lafta, an Iraqi extreme sports enthusiast, as a symbol of Americans and Iraqis working together..

You know what qualifies as an extreme sport in Iraq? Surviving the past eight years.