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2000 Plus

August 22, 2012 – 9:17 pm

Tonight Texas is playing Tennessee for a berth in the Little League World Series. The crowd at Willamsport, PA is about 5000. I was watching the game this evening with my landlord’s two kids. The score was 0-0 in the 2nd inning. ESPN showed happy faces eating hot dogs and slupring slush. There was no […]

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Waverider On The Loose

August 15, 2012 – 10:02 am

Until the advent of the steam engine the speed of man relied on our own muscles or those of a saddled horse. That barrier has been successively broken by trains, cars, planes, and rockets with the aim of getting someone somewhere somehow faster than before and yesterday the Pentagon launched the X-51 Waverider from a […]

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The Art of War chez la Pentagon

August 18, 2010 – 10:05 pm

During the Viet-Nam war some bright minds decided to inject elephants with flatulence medicine in hopes of flushing the VC out of the jungle with the pachyderms’ farts. The strategy failed to take into consideration windage and several grunt mahouts were hospitalized with severe methane poisoning ala JACKASS 2. The Pentagon attracted more schemers than […]

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Vietnam Non-Vet Syndrome

May 18, 2010 – 12:53 am

I protested the Vietnam War from the time I was 17. 1969 was late to turn against the Pentagon, but I never wavered from my commitment to stop the destruction of a country 9000 miles from the USA. The Pentagon has yet to honor my service against the war effort with a pension despite three […]

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Back to Camels

December 20, 2009 – 9:14 am

Private Eddie Slovik was last American to be shot for desertion. The year was 1945. In fact he was the only soldier executed for desertion in WWII “They’re not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army — thousands of guys have done that. They’re shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 […]

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