If you’re familiar with Don Winslow’s novel The Force [wc] it may feel as though The Seven Five [wc] is about some of the characters in the book.
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All the unbuffered error messages
It must be great times for the pentagon: a blockhead in the white house who’ll spend any amount on “defensive” weaponry, and law-makers from both parties that will sign any check so long as it’s for wars. Shopaholic heaven!
One thing I hate doing is digging post-holes. There is always a rock or something in exactly the wrong spot and by the time you’ve dug a foot or two down you know that: 1) you’re 1/3 of the way there 2) you’re at the effective limit of your tools.
Here’s a candidate rule: any time you see an organization trying to enforce its own system of justice and discipline it is because:
Operation Overreach is something I have not posted about before. I think some part of my subconscious was telling me “this is going to be more bigger than you think” and I was hesitating to get into it.
I think it’s pretty progressive that the town of Fair Haven, Vermont, elected a mayor who is a Nubian …
I’m not sure why calling something a “turkey” is an expression of disdain. Turkeys are actually pretty impressive: smart, well-camouflaged (stealthy like an F-35!) weather-resistant, reliable.
The US has always been an oligarchy. When we use today’s eyes to look at Jefferson’s Monticello, it looks quaint and compact compared to Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch, but in its time it was as close to a palace as the US could get.
Marketing is an inherently dishonest profession, in my opinion; its purpose is to misrepresent and manipulate. The other day I was at the surviving local hardware store, and ran across a piece of marketing from my distant past.
Sometimes I put really dark and depressing music on because, paradoxically, it cheers me up.