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Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs
2/13/2025 Apparently Donald Trump, President of the United States and Vladimir Putin, President of Russia are to meet and end the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is not invited. I would…
2/12/2025 There is an old story, well known and beloved by most in the military and by military historians, and almost certainly legendary, that goes like this: Supposedly, the old…
2//9/2025 Big Thought of the Moment: We are not, as Senator Andy Kim, Democrat of New Jersey, has suggest, “on the cusp of a Constitutional crisis.” It is rather that…
2/7/2025 There has been a lot of confusion over how to describe the role of Elon Musk in the Donald Trump presidency. Some, pointing up the power the Musk wields…
What the Fuck! Are you out of your mind? That’s batshit crazy! No! Not just no but hell no! What you are suggesting and doing is either illegal or a…
1/30/2025 Joe Biden has faced much criticism for the preemptive pardons he issued in his final days in office to family and other people threatened by Donald Trump. The first…
1/29/2025 There is an argument made that it was the temperance movement, and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (Prohibition), that ended the Progressive Movement, the wave of reform that…
1/28/2025 Does what is happening in Washington, DC at the moment more closely resemble: a) A new administration settling into office and attempting to implement its agenda? b) The leaders…
4/6/2024 Political Science Thought for the Day: I have been reading (in John Dickerson’s _The Hardest Job in the World_ most recently, and in many other places over the years)…
2/35/2025 Some people are excited that long-serving former Republican Majority and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted against confirming Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and so seemed to show some…
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