Watching the Watcher
At the beginning of 2023 there were four Seikos and one Timex in my watch collection. I’m starting this year with five and three.
Still Thankful, and with Good Reason
I hope you and yours had a great Thanksgiving too
Who’s That on the Roof?
Horrible things are happening to innocent people in Israel and Gaza. No more horrible than what’s happening to innocents in Ukraine and Yemen and I could go on, and one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter, but this is a time when sides must be taken and I take Israel’s.
22 YEARS LATER
Twenty-two years on, one scar’s still tender to the touch: the failure of our intelligence agencies and leadership to prevent an attack anyone could have seen coming (and many did, including me).
Sunday Catchup Ball
Gotta say, everything wrong with Twitter (X being halfway to a swastika, eh, Elon?), I don’t see a lot of porny TikTokish crap there. I see a lot of it on Bluesky and Threads.
Lying Liars
They’re not going to stop lying, these lying liars. It works for them, and that’s all that matters when you flunked Morality 101.
Seven Notes & Three Chords
Aldean’s music is the music of resentment. There’s just the one clef, with seven notes & three chords.
It Burns
May was nice. June too. But now it’s July and scenes like this are fading memories. We’re in a prolonged heat wave. They say people in Phoenix are being hospitalized with second-degree burns (third-degree in some cases, per CNN) after collapsing on 180°F sidewalks. If it’s happening in Phoenix, it’s happening in Tucson. Walking the […]