A Story About a Certain Aviation Technology in Two Parts At last we come to the almost end… too much aerodynamics to put this all in one post. “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”―Thomas Sowell in “A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of...
Part 15
Another day at the office… “Buddy, you flew that one like Steve McQueen.” Clark ‘Swab’ Cox wasn’t a man of many words - laconic might as well have been made just for him - so it caught me off guard and I laughed. I had just finished my second landing to the...
Part 6.
Buckle up…
Part 8.
Timely stuff! Lawsuits! What’s not to like?
After his first stop at the convenience store near his apartment for a drink he knew he had surveillance. By the time he left his second stop he identified which surveillance team was following him.
She tells me she gave up her teaching job. She’s laughing. “They said learn to code, so I did.” She looks more beautiful than I’ve ever seen her in her whole life.
Part 5.
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.