Hendrix's Eccentric Commentary

Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs

Category: Humor

  • French Army Atrocity

    December 29,2025 I recently came across a previously unknown atrocity committed by the French in World War I.  While reading a description of the Vivien-Bessiere Rifle Grenade, it stated that…


  • Big Thought for the Day:  

    8/17/25 Fate’s stripper name is “Karma.”


  • Technology Failure

    7/21/25 We can put a man on the moon. We have built an internet that connects the world. We have planes that fly themselves. We have artificial intelligence that thinks…


  • Ceremonial Penis Envy

    6/15/2025 There have been several comments, here and elsewhere, to the effect that the US Army’s parade on Saturday was really not all that great — two specifically cited poor…


  • Big Existential Thought for the Day:

    6/1/25 In life there are many more ways for things to go wrong than to go right.  This might be another way of stating the law of entropy.


  • Big Musicological Question for the Day

    5/30/25 Which set of lyrics are more enigmatic: a). Don McLean’s “American Pie?” Or  b) Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah?’ Vote early, vote often.


  • Existential Thought of the Day:

    5/20/25 Life is a constant struggle . . . to get rid of all the cardboard boxes and plastic food containers that come into your home.


  • Defunding CPB, PBS, and NPR

    5/3/2025 In regards to Donald Trumps’ attempt To defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Public Broadcasting System, and Natinal Public Radio, because they are “too liberal,” Trump is absolutely…


  • Culinary Thought for the Day:  

    4/12/2025 When adding seasoning or spices, measuring spoons are for wimps.


  • Tariff Addendum

    4/3/2025 Donald Trump has published an addendum to the tariffs that were announced yesterday: cancel the scraps for the beggars and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.


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