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Sunday, July 10, 2016

"Obama's Going to Take Our Guns" In the Army Paranoia is Normal

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At the end of January 2009, my unit mobilized for deployment to Iraq.  We trained for two months at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, before flying to ...
Friday, July 8, 2016

Soldiers Hate the Media, Even When They Work in Public Affairs

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Almost every soldier I have ever worked with, even soldiers in Military Public Affairs, hate the media.  I could understand it when I firs...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Every Thursday, I Shave My Legs--Even in Iraq

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Since one of my first big bike crashes in 1994, I have shaved my legs every week, usually on Thursday before racing on the weekend.  I st...
Monday, July 4, 2016

Trump Is Not Hitler, Not Mussolini, But Is Dangerous

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NOTE***After I posted the following essay, three very smart people showed me a big thing I missed in asserting that Trump is neither Hit...
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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, Book 16 of 2016

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C.S. Lewis in 1917 There are two kinds of people in this world:  Those who think prayer is a monologue.  Those who think prayer ...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Book 15 of 2016: Homer's Iliad--One of the First and Great War Stories

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The Iliad of Homer  one of the first and one of the best War Stories of Western Literature.  It opens with "The Anger of Achilles ...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Every Time I Put My Helmet On, I Could Die

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In Michigan earlier this month, a drunk, high or otherwise screwed up pickup driver ran over nine bicyclists, killing five and maimi...