"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Well. Say what you will about the Olympics, the Chinese sure put on an opening ceremony. For a moment there, I almost understood how a people might willingly, even happily, surrender their individuality to the grand goals of a powerful state. At the same time, though, I couldn’t help thinking about the North Koreans and […]
A Canadian rider posts a query to an American Goldwing riders message board: I’m planning to tour central and southern Mexico this fall. Would like to hear from anyone who has motorcycling experience in Mexico. I’ll be starting from Toronto, Canada and will be inside Mexico 3 or 4 weeks. Any suggestions? Some of the […]
We are meant to think, apparently, that Bruce Ivins, the civilian US Army scientist who committed suicide after becoming the FBI’s main suspect in the 2001 anthrax killings, was guilty. He was an insider, he had access to anthrax, he was brilliant but troubled, he had a long history of making homicidal threats, he exhibited […]
I invited a few F-15 buddies to join me on Facebook, where I started a by-invitation group for current and former military aviators. For the past year or two I’ve been looking for the presence of other F-15 pilots on the net. Just did another quick sweep, and AFAIK I’m the only one. Although the […]
I probably shouldn’t admit it, but I’ve always been a fan of Steven Seagal movies. Martial arts and Oriental mysticism leave me cold. Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris? Colder yet. But Steven Seagal . . . well, there’s something about the guy. I read an article about the Panchen Lama a couple of years […]
Recession life — you take three days off, throw in the weekend, and there’s your mini-vacation — it’s all many of us can afford these days. Thank God for weekends, and while we’re at it thank God for the labor movement of the early 20th Century, because if it weren’t for unions we’d all still […]
Driving home today I fell in behind a pickup truck with an odd homemade bumper sticker. Composed of individual stick-on letters, it read: drafting is not an act its an art winston salem cars are not apart Was he trying to say something about tailgating? Probably, but what? Never mind the missing apostrophe, the words didn’t […]
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