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Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs
10/11/2026 Everything I need to know about life, I learned by reading bad fiction: Anyone who reads even a small amount of genre fiction (mysteries, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy,…
9/26/2026 Big Thought for the Day: The reason for retirement is that it takes so much time to manage your medications that you no longer have time to work.
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…
8/17/25 Fate’s stripper name is “Karma.”
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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