"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
In the news
I’m going to assume I don’t have to explain that Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered in their home Sunday, and that Donald Trump posted a hateful rant about Reiner on Truth Social. What I’m finding interesting is reaction to Trump’s nastiness on the right.
Reminding service members they swore an oath to the Constitution, not to any particular president and commander-in-chief, and that they shouldn’t obey illegal orders, can get a little tricky.
My memory may be faulty, but wasn’t Dick Cheney a decent enough guy before he went to work as George W. Bush’s VP in 2001?
It’s Halloween, which you may remember is also my birthday.
“Well, that was predictable.”
There. Now you know why Air Force fighters have tail hooks.
At the rate I’m going here, pretty soon I’ll be saying jet fuel doesn’t melt steel.
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