Foundational Weapons For A Modern War
[The following is my letter to Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan, regarding the 2020 election. You have my permission to copy any of all of this and amend it in letters to your respective representatives.] Dear Senator Sullivan, I am an Alaskan. I have voted for you to represent me twice, and thus
By a show of hands, how many of you have never seen It’s A Wonderful Life? It’s okay, don’t be shy. Until I was married I hadn’t seen it either, and I was no stranger to old movies. I am a movie nerd, I used to program my family VCR to record
It was an ordinary summer evening in 1994. I’d just gotten home from a local pizza place with my sister, looking forward to eating some garlic cheese rolls and loafing in front of the TV. We walked in and the TV was tuned to a news station — an aerial shot of
Continue readingEvidence That Demands A Verdict: Then and Now
I had a dream the other night. I was outside of a house, facing a Magneto-style supervillain. Magneto is one of the most powerful characters in the X-Men comics. One of the other most powerful X-Men characters is Charles Xavier (or Professor X) who can control people’s minds, and in the dream,
Two days before Christmas in 1776, General George Washington sat down at his Valley Forge encampment. His weary Continental Army had just spent a season punctuated with a series of battlefield losses, and the imposing British army seemed in control of their fate. Washington took out a pamphlet he’d just received titled
I didn’t like him, didn’t trust him, and didn’t vote for him. That was then. Actions speak louder than words, they say, and they matter a great deal more. … Continue readingIf You’re Going to Follow a Leader…
I read something today that was patently absurd: “I’m a pro-life Christian, and I’m voting for Biden.” I think Inigo Montoya probably said it best. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” I offer no commentary on whether or not the writer was