August 2011 - Argghhh!

Nothing is ever so bad that wussified media hand-wringing can't magnify into The End Of The World As We Know It.Got that? "This is a storm that poses an extraordinary threat and is one that no one has yet experienced in the Northeast and New England."Dude, it's a Cat *One* -- in this neck of the woods, we get Nor'easters with winds that bump Cat One velocity.We've "experienced" Cat Fours here that took out every bridge across the Delaware north of Trenton and put...

...and reviewed by our very own in-house Rocket Scientist, Dr. Bad Cat Robot. (You think I jest, but she is in fact, all of that).Review of Hesitation Kills by Jane Blair (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2011)Hesitation Kills is a memoir of the Iraq War from a very unique perspective--not only is the author a female Marine officer, she was formerly an enlisted Marine and before that an HR specialist with a Fortune 500 company. ( The latter experience no doubt gave her a +5 in all encounters...