The Rocket Medic

Category: Politics

  • Malmedy, My Lai, Rafah…

    War is nothing new to humanity. War is brutal and violent and gory and is prone to excess in all fields; and civilians always suffer. Romans raped the women of Carthage, Goths slaughtered Roman children, the Celts habitually tortured captives, the Aztecs spent prisoners-of-war to make sure the sun would continue to rise. Americans are…

  • “No”

    Last Friday (3/28/2025), Vice-President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha travelled to Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule AFB) in northern Greenland as part of a truncated tour to the Danish territory that had initially included a day in the capital city of Nuuk and cultural episodes. This was initially billed as a friendly visit to…

  • DEI

    Immediately after winning confirmation as the Secretary of Defense, controversial former Fox News host and National Guard veteran Pete Hegseth went to war…on the military’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The problem, as Republicans define it, is that efforts to promote diversity suppress merit-based promotions and ultimately allows persons who are unfit to serve into…

  • State of the Union, 2025

    As promised, here it is. If you thought my criticism of the Democrats was scathing, this is probably going to ruffle a few more feathers. Let’s keep in mind, this guy is the duly-elected President of the United States of America. Customarily, the President starts off every year by giving a rousing speech detailing the…

  • The Piss-Stench of Fear and Weakness

    Long ago, Republican acolyte and political strategist extraordinaire Lee Atwater (one of the people responsible for the Nixon and Reagan Administrations) allegedly stated that “perception was reality” in terms of how the American public viewed politics. He was entirely correct, and under his guidance the Republican Party successfully framed Jimmy Carter as a weak, fearful,…

  • Idiocy In Action

    Elon Musk is a wealthy, powerful man who has bought his way into the Oval Office, the U.S. Government and the Republican and Democratic Parties. He is a venture capitalist, an investor and has some understanding of engineering and software. One thing he is not is a historian. In the aftermath of World War II,…

  • A Futile Mission

    Today, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky visited the Oval Office for a photo op and meeting with President Trump, Vice-President Vance and the greater American political caste. As usual, the American President was completely untethered from reality and historical connection. Trump and Zelensky have interacted before (Zelensky was elected in 2019 and was famously the other…

  • Water Doesn’t Flow Uphill

    So, it’s been nearly a decade since I last used this platform, so please bear with me. Today, I’m sitting on the edge of entering middle age, and I’m quite a bit wiser than I was when I used to write screeds on Facebook.  A lot has changed in the last decade. Not so much…

  • J.A.G.

    Back in the 1990s, Donald Bellisario, a TV producer, was looking for his next great idea. After what I presume was an incredibly boring night of whatever old people did in the early 1990s, he came up with the idea of a show about military lawyers. Paramount bought it, ran it for ten seasons, and…