"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
I have to admit I’m curious as to what actually happened on American Airlines Flight 924. Here’s what CNN said: Dave Adams, a spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service, said Alpizar had run up and down the plane’s aisle yelling, “I have a bomb in my bag.” But according to the same article: . […]
0342: USS Condor sights periscope in restricted water. Sends message via blinker light to USS Ward. 0610: Japanese carriers turn into the wind and commence launching aircraft. 0637: USS Ward fires on and sinks Japanese midget submarine in Pearl Harbor approaches. 0702: Opana Point radar station reports 50+ incoming aircraft. 0715: Ward’s report reaches ADM […]
This entry was posted by co-blogger Dick, a writer and former squadron mate: There is a cottage industry in the US about finding the “Final Secret” to Pearl Harbor and who was responsible for it. The revisionists want to blame FDR and the battleship boys keep saying “It wasn’t our fault.” Actually, there’s enough blame […]
This entry was posted by co-blogger Dick, a writer and former squadron mate: I can understand the worry about shoulder-held, surface-to-air missiles being used by terrorists against civilian airliners. It is a real threat and something we should not ignore. As to the Stingers in Afghanistan, one of my sources is confident that their batteries […]
No, not here . . . I’m talking about Metafilter. Metafilter’s a community weblog, where members post comments on various topics, including obscure news items. Occasionally, a Metafilter entry will catch my interest and I’ll blog about it here. Like this one, which I saw this morning: NewsFilter: UFO (missle) exhaust seen by pilot Have […]
God, enough cooking already! On Thanksgiving, while Donna, daughter Polly, and daughter-in-law Beth prepared turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, yams, and pies (apple and pumpkin), our son Gregory and I smoked a duck and a ham . . . it would have been a feast for a dozen adults and six hungry children, let […]
Last two weeks, the word “pushback” has been running through my mind. As in: “Mister President, we’re experiencing significant pushback on extending tax cuts to the rich.” I hate buzzwords. Pushback is high on my list of buzzwords. But there it is, at the forefront of my consciousness. Why? And then I remembered a conversation […]
Reference 8 Yellow Snow’s trucker rant: Almost all truckers are paid by the mile. Mile hauling cargo, that is. They don’t earn a cent dead-heading home, waiting for assigned loading dock times, sitting idle in blizzards or bumper-to-bumper traffic, stopping for meals, filling out paperwork and log books, or pulling over for mandatory rest periods. […]