Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs
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.
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…
6/1/25 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.
The MAGA movement has developed a violent edge and armed confrontations no longer seem impossible. Liberals need to consider the possibility of both general violence and personal threats and frankly…
2/18/2025 Dante need to be reincarnated so that he can devise another circle of Hell specifically for telemarketers.
2/4/2025 Today I fell victim to the deadliest ambush known to mankind, more dangerous than Seal Team 6 in an L ambush backed up by attack helicopters and JDAMs: The…
2/5/2025 Rant of the Day (A Reprise): We can put a man on the moon; we can build cars that drive themselves; we can put artificial intelligence in computers; so…
2/3/2025 Setting-up and using a new computer is like driving a new car: The first two or three times is fun, then you realize that it is just taking you…
1/26/2025 Big News! I am altering the way I sleep on my bed. (My life is a constant whirlwind of excitement.)
1/24/2025 At age sixty-seven, I am still learning what I am, but I do now have a very good idea of what I am not. This knowledge would have been…
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