Godspeed

The last of America’s original seven astronauts, the first American to orbit Earth, and decorated war veteran John Glenn has departed on his final launch.  Godspeed, John Glenn.

America needs some new and real heroes 

An Entirely New Awesome

I have a lucky streak going, and I know exactly what’s – rather who’s – responsible.  Precisely, it is the tiny

Grab The Moon

This post will be a lengthy one because I have a lot to recount here about my day, and word count or attention span for this event isn’t a factor.  Those are irrelevant by comparison.

Memorial Day 2015

I’ve ranted before about Memorial Day on this blog in a post here and another one here.  I wanted to do another this year, but I don’t like to recycle posts and there’s only so much glorification one can do, even for an important day like Memorial Day.  Today isn’t Memorial Day, but more on that later.

Who Will Police Our Police?

I woke up today to headlines of Baltimore in flames.  A major American city needed more resources than the mayor could – or wanted to – provide, and the state Governor fell back on the National Guard.  My reaction?  A total lack of surprise.

Reagan

Happy 104th Birthday, President Reagan.

We miss you.

America Is Awesome

I’m sitting here in a very echo-y, much-reduced version of my office.  The rest of my home – where I’ve lived for damn near seven years – is

D-Day… Today

I feel compelled to put up a post about today, the 70th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy

Nerd

A long time ago, in this galaxy, not so damn far away, a young kid who just earned a pair of glasses sat and watched

Bigotry Sucks

You know by now I exist in a fairly cloistered little world here in my military bubble.  It takes effort to poke