Kevin O’Brien It’s instructive, sometimes, to see how different agencies react to lean budgetary times. Some go into hibernation. Others flare up like a box of flaming mortar increments — or, to continue the animal analogy, like salmon on their fatal trip upstream to reproduce. And then, as we will see, “hardships” for government workers are seldom …
Himself. If you take that question the wrong way, you’re thinking who is this bozo to diss Saint JMB? But we’re not putting the emphasis on the JMB side of the sentence, but the What’s so special? end. As in: we really want to know. Why is this guy head and shoulders above the other great designers of weapons history? What made …
Afghanistan, 1980-something. A Soviet tank unit visits a brutal reprisal on a Pashtun mountain village north and east of Kandahar. It’s a scene of casual barbarity and calculating murder. The villagers fight back with rifles — mostly old Lee-Enfields — grenades and a single recoilless rifle. One resister is made an example of, crushed under …
Summer is over, with cool days and cooler nights hinting at a coming frost. The hydrangea is among the fabled 5% that does not get the word, still flowering defiantly even as oak and maple leaves — not changing color yet — have begin to fall. We’ll have to cut the hydrangea back rather a …
OLate, late, late. Sometimes we feel like the White Rabbit around here. We’ll back date this post to maintain the pleasant fiction that we post a TW3 and Matinee every Saturday. (Would you believe, Sunday night?) We do what we can. The links are all live. The Boring Statistics This week saw a return to …
We’re even behind around here. But they’re now up and backdated to: 1400 Saturday: Saturday Matinee 2013 39: The Beast (1988) reviews the best Afghan-Soviet War movie set in a T-55 tank. Of course, it’s the only Afghan-Soviet War movie set in a T-55 tank, and almost the only Afghan-Soviet War movie. (Well, there’s 9 Rota and Rambo III, but that kind …
Watch out for the one with your name on it. Actually, if what the kid said about the guy is true, we kind of can’t blame her for going… wait for it… bats. (When the groaning stops, the meat of the story is below). Thirty-year-old Forsythia Eliese Owen of Englewood told police she killed Denzel Rainey because …
We may not have time to cover this in detail, but the Castle Rock, Colorado, PD says that random spray-and-pray from an AR at a moving car full of burglars is a “reasonable” police technique, and the officer who missed the burglars and hit a passersby’s car ought to be commended. The Douglas County, CO, …
The term HP needs some explanation. It’s not “Hewlett Packard” or “High Performance” or “Horsepower,” or even [Browning] “High Power.” (Which is GP anyway, in its native Walloon: “Grande Puissance” — and sounds way sexier). It goes back to Norway, and SF guys’ love for spicy food. And the love for spices comes, at least …
Air Force snubs Vietnam KIAs; vets and civilians step up James Sizemore, RIP James Sizemore and Howard Andre were either busting trucks or supporting a SOG recon team along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos on 8 July 1969 — the records aren’t clear — when their B-26 was hit by ground fire and …