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...
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.
Merriam Webster online has the simple definition for culture as “the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time.”
It’s business as usual for me and mine.
In Part 1, I ended with Learned Hand’s famous cost-benefit formulation in the Law of Negligence.
These kinds of questions around the coronavirus are at the heart of any serious course on jurisprudence….
I never really knew anything about cancer.
A blog post I wrote on election night 2016. I’m likely preaching to the choir on some of this, but thought it worth sharing. Even better, however, is that it now looks prescient for 2020, so I’ve slightly re-purposed it for that, too.
When my boss first returned from China, Shanghai was what he talked about most.
The most interesting exchange of the night occurred in the bathroom….
I feel compelled to offer a kind of “after action report” or lessons learned section on the AVIP.
When Court ended that day, I knew that either we got a stay by the next morning or David Ponder and Jason Stonewall would be going to jail.
Indeed, any detailed historical look at DoD and VA actions in the aftermath of large batches of veterans returning home and filing claims, reveals a shocking pattern.