Should a blogger do so every day?  If I can’t manage to  get some passion up for the topic…any topic, should I put something here just to fill space and a date on the calendar?
I have a cold and some kind of intestinal crud just now and I just can’t seem to get a lot […]

An odd thing came to me last night as I talked to a despairing veteran of the first Gulf War. We two are at political odds, I am one of those ‘damned liberals’ and she is conservative. She is hurt by my rants here and at the forum because she says it means […]

Yes, the count of women service members killed stands at 100. It got me thinking as I looked thru a portrait gallery of their faces. I read the listed reasons of death. More than 15% were listed as the result of “non-hostile incidents”…which means the enemy didn’t kill them. […]

So, the latest rumble on the American economy is that Bush wants “every American who gets a paycheck” to get about $300.  Wooooohooo, hold me back!
Really, that is the saving grace?  The “Hail Mary” of American economic life is $300?  Not to be dismissive, ’cause, my goodness, that once filled the cupboards here with a […]

It is a pretty common, if rather unfunny, joke that while serving in the military, one gives up many of the very freedoms one has sworn to protect for others.  And even bitchy old broads like me can see the point of some of it; sure you may disagree with what your commander has in […]

Gee, where shall one move to?  Maybe I should do an “Around the country by taser cases” series.  Not really about the war, of course, but I just can’t stop myself.  A “veteran officer” in Tucson, Arizona tasered a runaway nine year old who was already in handcuffs at the time.
Not distressing enough?  I am […]

Recently, on the forum, the topic has come up of investigations to determine whether three recent casualties died as a result of enemy action or friendly fire. In my experience, people who have never served in the military at all are of the opinion that friendly fire is the rare mistake, a tragedy of […]

….like the bit the horse gets to run away with, yes, the film link in the post prior to this one just won’t be let go. The responses I got to the topic (not here, oddly) made me even more incredulous. Some of the ‘justifications’ of the tasering:
(1)Well, he shouldn’t have run.
(2)He didn’t […]

Apparently, I am not alone in my disgust at the western media with its Disneyesque view of the world events.  Someone else has been thoughtfully pursuing the causes of this phenomenon.
I recall when news reporting really WAS more objective and showed more sides. It has been loosing that characteristic for a good while now…it has […]

Back from the three day drive to Mexico, four days IN Mexico, and three day drive home including the “riding the storm out” bit of coming thru the recent snow/deluge hitting the West Coast. The slide show gets bits of it all, from the snows in Oregon as we left, to the beauties of […]