March 2013 - Argghhh!

Way to wave the bloody shirt, Senator . That was a puerile pusillanimous sack of burning dog poo thing to do. Even if there was a scintilla of actual, oh, truthiness to it, which, of course, there wasn't. Dare ya to make that point at Camp Lejeune. Then we'll see how well military discipline holds. Which it would. Damn good thing for you. And damn good thing for me I don't have to hold my tongue like I once did. You are one sad excuse for a human being, Harry Reid. And a pugnaciously...

Oh, I know. Who needs an Army when you have the Marines. Right, now that *that* crap is out of the way, read on. Around the Pentagon, the budget cutters have put away their knives and are reaching for axes. In times like these, every service naturally circles the wagons around its share of the budget pie. The stress is so great that otherwise smart people take incredibly silly stands. Last week, for instance, the former chief of naval operations, Admiral Gary Roughead, published a paper that calls...

This is a post I did several years ago, back in 2004. It somehow dropped out of the archives and into a black hole that only Google can get to - so I'm reposting it, this time for Facebookers. No, not you. I'm talking about, 'Duck'. A mother duck looks on as one of her brood falls over while trying to scale a curb. The duck was leading her six ducklings back to their nest in front of the Arkansas Arts Center and came back to help one who was too small to make it over the curb. When...

Probably full of imploding bullets, too. I admit, the Horsehoe Magazine was new to me. But wait! There's more! Really!

That would be Pogue .

Stewart - now a teenager, like all teenies, he wants his driver's license... Molly - Defender of the Herd.

I miss you, Mom. Elegy A good life, well lived.

...they're still using some kit I recognize! 03/12/2013 - A U.S. Soldier assigned to Bulldog Battery, Field Artillery Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment sets up a collimator for a fire mission with an M777A2 155 mm howitzer during the regiment's mission rehearsal exercise (MRE) at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Grafenwoehr, Germany, March 12, 2013. MREs develop combat skills, counterinsurgency tactics and interoperability between military forces of the U.S. and its partner nations before a...