Bob Woodward’s newest book, Obama’s Wars, contains a presidential quote that should make all of us feel a lot better. “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the … Continue reading →
On 15 November, 1964, I climb out of my Corvair in front of a long, two-story barracks-style building at Reese AFB, Texas, that looks exactly like the other buildings lined up on either side of it. All of the Undergraduate … Continue reading →
A personal account by a participant of the raid continues: After we got settled in Columbus, my squadron commander called us all together. He told us that an awfully hazardous mission was being planned, and then he asked for volunteers. … Continue reading →
Joan Upton Hall in her Rx for your Writing Ills, Self-editing for Creative Writers, calls this BVDS, or “Be-verb Dependency Syndrome.” I first met Joan through the Writers’ League of Texas’ critique program when an early draft of my current … Continue reading →
My website is really getting popular. I have “fans” in Germany, Mexico, Canada, England, France (this visitor included the word “sexe” as a special incentive, I guess), and the latest, Pakistan. Compliments come from visitors associated with online poker, pharmaceuticals, … Continue reading →
No matter what your political persuasion and attitude toward the subject of illegal immigration might be, this is funny. From The Manitoba Herald: The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, … Continue reading →
Here we go again. From The Cable (thecable.foreignpolicy.com))…Josh Rogin “The Senate is expected to take up the defense authorization bill next week, but top Republicans on the Senate Armed Services committee are promising to oppose the legislation due to language … Continue reading →
In the spring of 1978 I flew to Aspen, Colorado from Albuquerque, New Mexico in a small Cessna aircraft. The pilot was my fiancé Rudy’s friend Paul, who had made a fortune in the early ’70s Indian jewelry business, and … Continue reading →
Maybe it’s just me, but there’s something so inherently dysfunctional about the way government works that makes me want to scream. In the midst of partisan rhetoric, we often hear a politician of one stripe accuse a politician of another … Continue reading →
One of the issues discussed in the aftermath of this accident and mentioned in a previous post in this logbook is that of emergency locator transmitters, or ELTs. AVweb has a recent article and blog post on this subject and … Continue reading →
