The Launch Pad

  • 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…

  • First Post

    Starting off a blog is always a challenge. I’ve got a lot of disparate interests, and I’d like to focus on a few of them. Politics, historical analysis, analysis of current events, and some other stuff like firearms, anime, etc. I’m very new to WordPress so please pardon the poor site design.

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