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Friday, November 5, 2021

Hypersonic Missiles -- FGFD: Field Guide to Flying Death

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  Hypersonic missiles recently exploded into the news when China tested their own version of the WMD du jour . Speed is just one of many wa...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Why Doesn't He Care About His Legacy? Why Rush Limbaugh Lied with his (literal) dying breaths

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Rush Limbaugh, 1951-2021  Some very smart people I listen to wondered aloud in the past year why Rush Limbaugh did not care about his legacy...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Machiavelli on the Problem of Monotheism

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  This week I listened to a talk by Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield.  You can watch it here  or listen to the podcast.  One thing that ca...
Monday, October 25, 2021

How Many Books are You Reading Now? A Lot.

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Every few weeks I get a version of the question, "How many books are you reading now?"  On some online book groups, the question m...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Colin Powell, an Arduous Road to Great Success

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  In 1958, when Colin Powell was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army, the former slave states still had Jim Crow laws in effect and...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Field Guide to Flying Death: With Gunships, Slower is Better

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  AC130 Gunship in the air and on the ground  Air support for troops in the Vietnam War began with the latest and fastest jets of the 1960s....
Monday, October 11, 2021

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel: The Book and the Musical

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  Two weeks ago I saw the musical "Fun Home" an adaptation of a memoir of the same name by Alison Bechdel.  A week later, I starte...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Thinking and Feeling: The Inside, Outside Difference

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  The past and the future are infinite and meet at the moment we are thinking.  Our thinking can reach into infinity. A friend recently post...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

The Taliban are not Medieval

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  Chartres Cathedral During the flurry of worry as we abandoned an ally to barbarism, many commentators and social media "experts"...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Everybody Hates Jews

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Honestly by Bari Weiss, a new podcast  One of my favorite new podcasts is Honestly  by Bari Weiss.  She was a columnist at the New York Time...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Hunting Magic Eels and the Search for Spiritual Reality

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Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age by Richard Beck  In one of my book groups, the one where we read and discu...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

My Top 61 Books -- Giving me delight is all they have in common.

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  As a member of several book groups, I occasionally see a list of the top 10, 25, 50, 100 books of all time or some time or recent time.  O...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan to Retire on September 11

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  Master Sgt.Pamela Bleuel (left) in Afghanistan In July 2009 I was pushing my bike toward a gap in the blast wall on Camp Adder, Iraq.  ...
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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Fascists and Fundamentalists Don't Care if You (or your mother) Die

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  Anti-vaxx, anti-mask Republicans don't care who dies Fascism has no ideology.  It is not a coherent system of beliefs.  Fascists: --Lo...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

"Make a Buddy" Shitter

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  The times when I lived and worked in close quarters large groups of men--the Army and Teamsters loading docks.  One lament common to both ...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Every Day, All Day Humiliation at Auschwitz

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  Auschwitz-Birkenau latrine On my return visit Auschwitz in July of this year, I saw things I missed or forgot I saw on my first visit in 2...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Seven Years Ago Today: Ironman Finish Six Minutes Before Midnight

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  My wife and I crossed the start line at 7:20 a.m. I crossed the finish line  at 11:54 p.m. after 16 hours and 34 minutes of swimming, ridi...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Vital and Urgent Priorities in America's Place in the World

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  At the center of the book "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" the author says we must learn to separate the Vital from th...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Bungee Cord Repair Lasts 2,400 Miles

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2021 Nissan Altima plus six bungee cords Last Friday my son Nigel and I left Lancaster at 8:30 p.m. to drive to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He w...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

"Le Grand Remplacement"--Great Replacement Theory Began in France and Became the Trump Call to Arms

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Le Grand Remplacement came to America as "Great Replacement Theory," the belief that Jews are  replacing white people with brown p...