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Recent Reading
Lately, my nightly reading has been a 6-book series, A Naval History of Great Britain: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Written and published in the 1820s, the six volumes are a...
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Just received: I haven’t had a chance to crack it open yet, but as soon as I do I’ll write it up. If the whole thing is as good as the previews I’ve seen (and I expect it certainly will be) I’ll enjoy...
View ArticleMasticate With Extreme Prejudice
On my return home from the hospital Thursday, a box from Amazon.com was waiting for me. Inside: Steve Graham’s latest literary endeavor, Keep Chewing Till It Stops Kicking. Over the next few days, when...
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Eat, drink, and be very very merry
On Monday I received a package from Amazon which contained pure gold… smothered in beef fat: Eat What You Want And Die Like A Man Written by Steve Graham of Hog on Ice (one of my all-time and ongoing...
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Quote of the Day
Victor Davis Hanson: It was not surprising, but entirely predictable that a nation that sixty years ago produced napalm, flamethrowers — and eventually A-bombs — to combat thousands of suicidal...
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I may be a geek, but I’ve never been a comic book geek, either as a kid, or since. Once, though, while in the throes of boredom between trips up to the DMZ during my service in Korea, I borrowed a...
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Quick Book Review
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966. Quick review: I lately find myself wishing for an advantageous locale, vis-a-vis Earth’s gravity well. 5 stars. Spurred by references to Simon...
View ArticleUnnatural Selection
I hear, lately, of people saying they will refuse to get immunized for H1N1 when the vaccine soon becomes available, either out of some sort of concern about the safety of the vaccine or — get this —...
View ArticleDream a little dream.
I’ve lately been re-reading my way through my set of Tom Clancy novels. I’ve finished The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of all Fears,...
View ArticleHow good is the Bing search engine?
Having recently finished reading Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway, I decided to look up more info on the Japanese carriers lost during the battle. I went to Bing and typed in...
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