"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
“If I didn’t wake up, I’d still be sleeping.” – Yogi Berra About a year ago I finally did something about my sleep apnea. I’ve had it all my adult life, but until I was in my 50s it was a benign condition—I snored horribly but Donna seemed to have learned to live with it […]
We support freedom of speech . . . as long as you don’t listen! On the job I access the internet through a military network (I’m a civilian contractor on a U.S. Air Force base). The military has always used filters to deny access to web sites containing pornography, hate speech, or games, but lately […]
Articles in The Onion are fact-free, yet sometimes convey more truth than facts ever could. I wonder if this falls into that category. Other bloggers say Capitol Hill Blue can’t be trusted, but after reading about the Enron tapes, I’m starting to think “alternative” journalists like Mack White have a better handle on things than […]
Well, since you asked . . . I spent Saturday morning working on the Goldwing with a friend. Later that afternoon I rode from Tucson up to Phoenix, where I crashed for the night at my daughter’s apartment. Sunday morning I laid on a coating of sunblock and took off east on McDowell Road to […]
One of the perks of a military career is being buried in Arlington National Cemetery, or at the very least having a military funeral with an honor guard and a bugler playing Taps. And now this. Damn, at this rate, by the time I die, burial in Arlington will be some sort of revolving-door ceremony. […]
Earlier, I blogged about a US military ban on camera cell phones and a rumor that the defense department was trying to stop our troops in Iraq from contacting the outside world. According to Boing Boing, it looks like I’m on to something. Take away their e-mail and internet access. Take away their digital cameras […]
So yesterday – like what, a week and a half after Major General Taguba’s report on prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq became widely available over the Internet? – the Office of the Secretary of Defense puts out a DoD-wide urgent bulletin telling military and DoD personnel they can’t access or read it because it’s […]
When I ride my motorcycle on the freeway I monitor my speed with GPS and try to stay at the limit or at the most 5 mph over. Where I live – Arizona – that’s how fast most people drive. If I lived somewhere like Southern California, where freeway traffic runs 10 to 20 over, […]