[Auth. note - for better context, these are the previous “episodes” in this series: AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, AMST 5, AMST 6, AMST 7] A Collection of Tales Always remember, Kids! Even under the best of circumstances, it can all go to shit in an instant. - One of...
More Stuff Top Gun Never Mentions [Note: Prior pieces in this series can be found at AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, AMST 5, AMST 6, AMST 7] PostScript to a Crash After “the crash” - as I like to think of it - the squadron performed...
[Ed. note: Prior pieces in this series found at AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, AMST 5, and AMST 6.] I began this series with a brief look at Bud Holland’s actions vìs a vìs the Fairchild AFB crash. The reconstruction of how that all happened, right down to Holland’s...
Part 4.
“Appointment with the Chief, Mister Jefferts?” Flora Gonzalez was sixty or so, matronly, with a number of years as a loyal personal assistant. She also brooked no nonsense and guarded the Chief’s time jealously.
Part 2.
“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