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: 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 …
Monthly Archives: December 2013 This 1980s miniseries is a marathon of a soap opera, based on three staggeringly successful novels by historical novelist John Jakes, that uses two fictional families and their intertwined fates to tell the story of the American Civil War. The boxed DVD set comprises the three miniseries that begin when young …
Monthly Archives: November 2013 Eddie Hoffens, from Facebook. Meet David Hoffens, and Edgar “Eddie” Hoffens, the way the Manchester, NH, police and courts did: David Hoffens pleaded guilty last month to threatening to kill his brother, Edgar, then pulling out the telephone lines so his brother could not call police. The younger Hoffens was given …
Monthly Archives: January 2013 Plump Air Force chicks, the future of ground combat (l.); GEN Martin Dempsey (r.) . DOD photo At a press conference introducing his opening of all combat positions to women, legislation be damned, lame-duck SecDef Leon Panetta also insisted, “[L]et me be clear, we’re not talking about reducing the qualifications for …
Monthly Archives: June 2012 Hard work in Japanese military archives by retired professor Taketoshi Yamamoto from Waseda University has unearthed information long thought lost about the training of Imperial Japan’s elite military intelligence operators during what Americans see as the run-up to World War II, but what was for Japan already a wartime period (with China and …
Monthly Archives: May 2012 It always gets to us a bit when people thank us on Memorial Day. Thanks are always appreciated, after all, even though our reasons for serving were personal and sufficient and absolutely no thanks are expected or required. And Memorial Day is about the fallen, not the survivors. It’s a day …
Who was it that turned up in a raid on an industrial pot facility? Everybody’s The President’s favorite deserter1, who’s supposed to be in the jug awaiting trial for desertion, turned up in a massive marijuana raid in California. The cops looked to return the peripatetic accused to his military base, only to get a …
