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Breaking the Law
This story has set me thinking. To summarize: Man comes home to find his home burglarized. Man sees the burglar crawling out of his neighbor’s window. Man yells at the burglar to ‘Freeze’. Burglar does...
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Climate Scientist from MIT has this to say. Thanks to Jerry Pournelle for the link. ALSO! Giraffes fighting!
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Brave and Responsible Syrians
13 Syrians die attempting to rescue foreign journalists from Homs In the days after the 9/11 attacks I was treated to footage of ecstatic crowds on the ‘arab street’ celebrating our tragedy. This...
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PTSD and Sensational News Media
Or should I say Irresponsible News Media? Or even Cynically Deceptive News Media? They all fit. One weekend while I was in Afghanistan (during my second straight year of combat deployment in 2003) my...
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Enlightenment Through Condescension
John Scalzi wrote an intriguing piece the other day exploring the metaphor of life as a video game, specifically the premise that Straight White Males have life the easiest of all character classes in...
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Not Going to Roswell
I’m in Capitan, New Mexico right now. The birth and final resting place of Smokey Bear. (Not Smokey THE Bear just Smokey Bear. Get it right you soft-shoed urbanite.) I’m learning how to track people....
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Uniform on Display, A Response
Myke Cole wrote an intriguing piece over on Jim C. Hines blog the other day. It was entitled Uniform in the Closet: Why Military SF’s Popularity Worries Me. In it Myke opined that there is a widening...
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Guns, Ignorance, and Fear
My heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones in Aurora, Colorado this weekend. The kind of fear, pain, and horror their loved ones experienced in that theater, and the kind of fear, pain, and...
View ArticleOn the Aftermath of the Iraq War
With the “Zero Option” exercised and the rise of ISIS, I hear a lot of veterans wondering if we wasted our time in Iraq. Did we leave our families for years at a time for nothing? Did our friends spend...
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