[Ed. note: These AMST stories have been written to be at least partly dependent on each other, so here are the prior posts to save you the clicking around if you want the full context - AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, and AMST 5.] I met a traveller from an...
Part 5
Life in the Fleet The Are Only Two Kinds of Helicopter Pilots… December 1993 I’ve been a student for so long, the Fleet is like a mythical Promise Land where there is only milk and honey and I will finally be an actual Marine helicopter pilot! As soon as I check in,...
“Mister Jefferts, what I would like to know is why the fuck El Uni – these fucking people, we know this isn’t a solo effort – blew up an empty building… in that particular shithole.” The President of the Progressive States of America held out a cigarette and one of the interns flitted by, lit it, and then disappeared.
The prologue to a new serial feature set in a grim, dystopian future that may be far too real.
I hate to disagree with such a great lyric and song, but Life has provided me with some uncomfortable lessons
Culture Gaps
Of scale, objet d’arts, and “Chinese Food”
I packed 2 of the bags that I used to travel to Afghanistan to the absolute weight limits, plus carry-ons; and I knew I was still going to have to spend money to buy things.
I heard the door open and a woman came out to let me know that the execution had not been stayed.
How the data is spun is as important as the actual data.
I’m going to try my hand at a regular submission schedule.
In my first installment, I quoted extensively – and unapologetically – from Vaclav Havel’s brilliant essay, “The Power of the Powerless.“
For those who haven’t read it, Havel’s essay is a masterpiece, comparable in its effect and significance to Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.”
It took me a while to stumble into the realization that the U.S. military is a socialist’s wet dream, but the discovery helped me to understand why Socialism Always Fails.
One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggressiveness of their conformism.
A final excerpt from Ozy’s new fiction.
Part 1 of some new fiction from Ozy!
The typical political calculation for Vice Presidential picks is that they’re supposed to add something to the Presidential candidate’s electoral prospects.
I intentionally used the word “Statism” in place of “Socialism” in the title to this piece because…
Some thoughts based upon my own lived experience.
CrossFit CEO and CrossFit community rift is reflective of larger split in these United States
I think we all should take issues of “systemic racism” more seriously.
As I mentioned in the comments a day or two back, someone in my neighborhood Facebook group organized some kind of “event” over George Floyd.
What we believe in any given culture, small or large – our collective values – what we revere, is exactly what we will propagate and get.