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Like a lot of Americans, I had the misfortune to watch the travesty that was the hearings on Brett fucking Kavanaugh last week. I really wasn’t inclined to watch them, rather I was more of a mind to wait till I read the transcripts afterward. But the S.O., surprisingly, wanted
Continue readingOne thing that is truly depressing about our current era is that it is virtually impossible to have a conversation anymore about issues of national importance. To take a position on something is to invite immediate attack and its become just about impossible to hold a semi literate conversation in
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Continue readingI have had to spend the week back in Shopping Mall USA this week. As a result I have gotten to watch the royal mess that is the Republican national convention. It’s been a very graphic display of how far America has fallen, and how ludicrous the GOP has become.
Continue readingJune 23rd this year is a big day. Its a big day because the United Kingdom is about to potentially make a really stupid decision and leave the EU. ( A really stupid decision). It’s also a day that I made a really stupid personal decision and it set the
Continue readingTo the earlier discussion about gun control. As a part of my job, I monitor the Israeli English press and where I can get them, translations of Hebrew newspapers. There was an excellent article in The Jerusalem Post this week about the Israeli approach to firearms and the American one.
Continue readingEspecially people of the “Fox News Viewer” persuasion. I admit it. I am astounded American politics is where it is today. I mean really, Donald Trump is probably going to be the GOP nominee? Really? If you read any of my posts from earlier in the year-you will know that
Continue readingIf you have been following my sparse postings lately ( and judging by the hit counter, you haven’t) you will know that I am no fan of the junior Senator from the less than great state of Texas, Ted Cruz. In my lifetime, I have seldom seem an individual more
Continue readingIts been a month since I have posted. I have been busy. No excuse to be sure-but its the truth. During that time a lot has happened, much of it comment worthy-and if you are big reader like I am, you have probably read a lot of the commentary on
Continue readingJames Fallow’s of The Atlantic magazine has written a must-read, thought-provoking article, on the current state of civil-military relations. It is a long read, but it is well worth your time. In it, he highlights the real hypocrisy of a country that fawns over its military to the point of idolatry, yet
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