Veterans Day 2025
A smart, snappy salute to all who served in our Armed Forces. Today belongs to you. You have earned the respect and gratitude of all of your countrymen. And you have my personal and unreserved respect. I am glad to have been counted among you although I can honestly say that my own service during…
George Washington’s Warnings
President George Washington warned in his 1796 Farewell Address about dangers that lay ahead for the US – warnings that seem startlingly contemporary and relevant 229 years later. I have republished below the article by Robert A. Strong, which first appeared in THE CONVERSATION, September 8, 2025 8:00am EDT. (Please note: There are live links…
Voodoo Medicine
I’m making a very brief post today. I simply want to bring to your attention the attached essay by Dannagal Young published in the Opinion section of today’s edition of the New York Times. The writer recounts her personal experience as someone who out of desperation tried everything to cure the pernicious brain cancer that…
Operation Overlord-Epilogue
For those who have previously read and commented on my D-Day posts, I offer my somber greeting on this annual memorial to the patriotic men and women of the “Greatest Generation”, those who served across the world in our armed forces as well as the civilians at home who stepped up to manufacture the war…
Memorial Day 2025
Enough longwinded speeches. Enough artificial emotions. Enough manufactured poignant metaphors. REMEMBER THE FALLEN Remember why the fell, in what cause: Freedom from political oppression, from religious fanaticism, and from vicious and diabolical prejudice. In Europe: They fought fascism, and the fascist dictators who were masters of “Big Lies” and deadly actions that turned most of…
Habemus Papam
That announcement provides an easy and convenient verbal prop for making a post. We have a Pope! With the news of the election of Pope Leo XIV as successor to the late Pope Francis I, we are treated to a novel turn of events. It happened quickly, between the first vote in the evening and…
Corruptio Optimi Pessima, Veritas Autem Vos Liberabit
I don’t know how to begin, or what to say. All of us have seen the news. An incredible breach of operational security……by those charged with safeguarding the nation and its vital interests! What can you say or do? Those placed in charge have failed in the most elementary aspect of professional tradecraft–securing classified information…
Lieb Vaterland Magst Ruhig Sein
I begin this post with an email exchange between Linda, and myself. Linda is my longtime friend from our University of Michigan days and a frequent email correspondent : Read about the influencer behind the Tech Bro turn to the Right politically. I’d only recently heard of this man. Take a look. Linda “The Dubious…
Pearl Harbor Day
It’s automatic. It’s visceral. Every December 7th, I remember, as do most Americans of my generation–born when World War Two swept in and seized America by the throat–that fateful Sunday morning in 1941 when the world burst into flames. No, I wasn’t there, but throughout my childhood in the 1940s, we learned at home, in…
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
It’s hard to believe that as the fraught year of 2024 is drawing to a close, we are revisiting the science behind the pasteurization of milk. I don’t suppose many of us older folks are milk drinkers–although I do admit to enjoying ayran, my favorite yogurt drink–but fans of RFK Jr. should still exercise caution…
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