Kevin O’Brien Monthly Archives: April 2015 Fun fact: more work seems to have gone into this cover image than the document inside. First, here’s the unclassified Official Cyber Strategy of the USA, signed by Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Initial take: the guy really is an empty suit, stuffed with Beltway entitlement, and serving various constituencies, with the …
Monthly Archives: May 2015 According to prosecutors, four men beat and kicked three others unconscious the other weekend. The beatdown began when one of the victims, Laura Gaarsland, told one of the attackers he was “a bad person.” He proceeded to prove how good he wasn’t, by assaulting her, and his friends joined in. Gaarsland’s …
Monthly Archives: March 2015 The practice of posting That Was The Week That Was, an overview of the recently ended week, has tapered off here, as this kind of admin post is one of the least exciting to do. However, it’s a great way to call retroactive attention down on posts that might have been …
One gun jeep — looks dead butch, but needs work. (Starting/charging system has proven resistant to troubleshooting). Ian at Forgotten Weapons has reached that stage that all vintage-vehicle LTRs reach; he is so eager to be divorced from this 1946 CJ-2A Jeep (basically, a wartime Jeep with bigger headlights for the civilian market) that he’s …
Monthly Archives: November 2014 Letitia Davis, 36, before she was burned to death for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, by a man the justice system never took seriously. Police and firefighters, called by a good Samaritan, found a woman in Wichita last monday doing an impression of the cartoon character, the …
For many years after World War II, the aircraft of the war were just, “old.” In the heady Jet Age, wartime transports still had economical utility, but the combat types were quickly left behind. They were relegated to duties as instructional airframes for novice mechanics (“learn riveting on this, it’ll never fly again so you can’t screw …
The new, and excellent, memoir of Marine rifleman Sterling Mace (written with pro writer Nick Allen), Battleground Pacific, goes into some detail about what Mace thought about weapons and equipment. Here are some quotes from the book: It was George [McNevin, a friend of Mace’s before the war that he ran into on the island of Pavuvu, …
Monthly Archives: June 2014 Cause there’s always got to be hammers, it seems. In any event, you can kind of sympathize with the murderer here, if her story is true. A Chinese woman cut of her former boyfriend’s penis with a pair of scissors and then beat him to death with a hammer after he allegedly raped …
Monthly Archives: July 2014 Florida has different demographics depending on where in the state you are. The East Coast is pushy, abrasive New Yorker boomers. The West Coast, the same. The Southern tip is occupied by whatever Latin American caudillos survived their ouster, and their former retainers. The Panhandle is Where Alabama Meets the Sea®. And …
Nope, they keep ignoring them afterward. As a result, the LA County Morgue has dozens of dead vets in its drawers, who have no families to take care of them, but have depended on volunteers for their last services, and the VA for their cemetery plots and headstones. Guess who hasn’t been holding up their …