Victor Davis Hansen talks about how his graduate work in Classics led to writing about military history — and why military history matters: Try explaining to a college student that Tet was an American military victory. You’ll provoke not a counterargument — let alone an assent — but a blank stare: Who or what was […]
…this is a bit too unnerving: Hat tip to Defamer (one of my guilty pleasures).
Thanks to a tip I saw somewhere on the net today and the ever-helpful information at Heavens Above, I knew that the International Space Station (ISS) would be passing overhead here in Denver around 9:00 pm MDT. And sure enough, just before 9:00, a very bright dot appeared in the northwest sky, slowly heading toward […]
Blackfive is on a role. First, they tracked down, identified, and conducted a phone interview with the USMC Staff Sergeant who did the slam poetry video below. And they did it before the mainstream media could. Second, they have this link to Military Motivator, a place where individuals use the “do-it-yourself-Demotivator” function at Despair.com to […]
I fully anticipated the 2000 Tech Crash, due to the insane spending of dot.com startups with no products and no clear business plan. Having been part of a venture-funded startup in the early 1990s — one that took five years to run through a grand total of $7M of venture capital — I heard big […]
OK, this clip is almost enough by itself to make me want to go see Resident Evil: Extinction. I’ve never played the games. I’ve only seen the first movie (and then only on SciFi), and it was goofy, formulaic, and had some really cheesy special effects (though I’ve always like the final scene). But…zombie crows. […]
A few weeks ago, a British newspaper — the Newquay Guardian — carried a story about a Great White shark being sighted off the coast of England. This report, of course, was immediately cited a further evidence of global warming, as these 15,000 Google hits demonstrate. Turns out that the picture was a hoax, or […]
Since there’s only three of us at home — Sandra (my wife), Salem (our youngest daughter, going on 22 and seldom seen), and myself — we don’t tend to do a lot of cooking, and we almost never have sit-down meals anymore unless we have company coming over. However, every few weeks, I will fire […]
Here’s a story about a man transporting a dime from the West Coast to the East Coast. The catch: the dime is worth $1.9 million: Feigenbaum is a rare-coin dealer, and the dime he was carrying across the country, from San Jose to New York, is an 1894-S dime, one of only nine known to […]
The new “greatest generation”
Thirty, forty, fifty years from now, Americans will look back in wonder at those who answered the call at the turn of the century: Hat tip to Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive. ..bruce.. [UPDATED 08/12/07 – 2216 MDT] Thanks to Ace of Spaces HQ for the Ace-alanche! I should note for the record that my wife […]
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