"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
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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The family that bicycles together earns a big breakfast together! Would you believe we all got up at five this morning to go for a bicycle ride with the Trail Trash? I didn’t think you would, so I took a photo to prove it. Donna took grandson Quentin to a nearby park while Gregory, Beth, […]
We’re having a family Fourth of July weekend. Our granddaughter Taylor has been here the last couple of weeks, and now the rest of her family – her father (our son) Gregory, her mother (our daughter in law) Beth, her brother (our grandson) Quentin – are here. Our annual neighborhood parade is later this morning, […]