Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I have been brooding about an article I read the other day, one that describes the brave new world of job interviews. According to the Wall Street Journal, many companies, having recognized that traditional interview techniques aren’t necessarily a good way to determine whether someone is right for the job,
Continue readingYou know what the number one song in Britain is this Christmas? “Wherever You Are” a beautiful choral song, with lyrics based upon a poem drawn from letters between British service men and their wives, sung by those wives: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hR6O7VxKaQ[/youtube] By the way, if you buy the song, not only
Continue readingI don’t know where he found it, but The Mellow Jihadi has the most wonderful photograph, from 1950, showing a sailor politely admiring two WAVES aboard his ship. Aside from the photo’s naturally elegant composition, it has the feel, not just of another time, but of another universe altogether. Just
Continue readingYou remember Ilario Pantano, don’t you? Well, maybe not. It’s been a long time now since the media savaged his reputation, selling him to Americans as a cold-blooded killer, a story that ran endlessly on newspaper front pages and in TV headlines. Interestingly, the media was pretty quiet when the
Continue readingA new enlistee thought quickly and helped arrest a couple of brazen criminals (emphasis mine): A quick-thinking cashier ran out of a Mill Valley store Sunday morning and photographed two women who had shoplifted Taser stun guns and pepper spray — resulting in arrests a few minutes later. At about
Continue readingI came of age in the post-Vietnam era. Let me amend that: I came of age in San Francisco in the post-Vietnam era. Although Fleet Week, which started in the City about 20+ years ago has done a lot to turn things around, San Francisco has not been a military
Continue readingLast night, I went to the Annual Pearl Harbor Memorial Dinner hosted by the San Francisco Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States. It was, as I knew it would be, a significantly smaller event than the annual Midway Commemoration dinner. That’s reasonable, because the latter celebrates a
Continue readingWas the chasm between the people in the field and the people in the Pentagon always so great? Or has the air in Foggy Bottom become even more toxic? It’s hard to imagine the military 40 or more years ago making such a concerted effort to cover-up an investigation and
Continue readingI’ve got an old joke for you, one that my Dad heard during WWII in North Africa: A soldier has been serving in the desert for a long time, and has become increasingly antsy as his body craves sexual release. He notices that his fellow soldiers seem much more relaxed
Continue readingSuek posted this is an open thread, but I thought it was too good to keep hidden: Marines are taught: 1) Keep your priorities in order and 2) Know when to act without hesitation. A MARINE was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and
Continue readingGreat poster, that’s all I can say. And here is the perfect companion piece (after which you’ll want to take a shower).
Continue readingDan Abrams, who’s some sort of ABC talking head, has weighed in about Mike McQueary. Because I’ve already flogged the topic to death in other posts, I won’t explain here why I strongly disagree with his argument that McQueary really didn’t do anything that wrong. What intrigued me in the
Continue readingWith the holidays nearing, this is a lovely charity to make sure that our troops far from home (and that’s true whether they’re stationed half a world away from home or on the other side of our own country), can talk to their family and friends. (Thank you, MNK, for
Continue readingWith all due respect to my Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard friends, you all know that I have a soft spot for the Marines. So Happy Birthday, dear Marines! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79UW6-NAAU[/youtube] (Or watch here.)
Continue readingYou can’t improve upon the tweet that the U.S. Army put out this morning: This is exactly the way an Army should approach warfare. Thank God that at least someone in the Army’s Twitter PR office hasn’t been infected by PC thinking.
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