Thank you, but I didn’t actually get cancelled in any meaningful way. Valiant attempts were made to drown me (figuratively), but since I don’t have a job I can’t be fired, I’m a tough old bat, I’m too elderly to give much of a poop about my future “career,” it’s not the first hanging party and book-burning featuring myself, and it seems …
I thought from the get go that he was wronged. Not that I felt that rape is just fine, I felt that it was not well researched. It seemed that he was ‘guilty’ without a trial. I had someone take advantage of me as a child, so I have skin in the game, so to speak but I feel that we certainly can’t accuse anyone without a trial regardless of how heinous it may be.
There are very little parallels between Vietnam and the Russo-Ukraine war. The Vietnam War is a guerilla war between a superpower nation and an anti-colonial communist movement. The Russo-Ukraine war is much closer to the positional attrition-focused fighting of WW1.
I don’t like to get in the habit of “arm chair generalship”, there could be a logic to the madness that I am missing. But I have to ask what the Kursk offensive is going to accomplish. Ukraine is rapidly (while compared to the prev…
There are very little parallels between Vietnam and the Russo-Ukraine war. The Vietnam War is a guerilla war between a superpower nation and an anti-colonial communist movement. The Russo-Ukraine war is much closer to the positional attrition-focused fighting of WW1.
I don’t like to get in the habit of “arm chair generalship”, there could be a logic to the madness that I am missing. But I have to ask what the Kursk offensive is going to accomplish. Ukraine is rapidly (while compared to the prev…
I rather doubt that this in indecisive. So far the Russians are inching forward, while the UA is covering Kilometers. Of course in an barely defended area, nobody in Moscow really cares.
But this is gaining a strange momentum. While the Russian response currently is incoherent (as usual in the beginning of anything they have to do when surprised), they look stupid. This will only change, when the put more proper army units in place. Which they do not have, without pulling them from other fronts…
This is the classic fallacy of the Robert McNamara inspired “management of war,” where you look to contain it, manage it, and publish body counts on PowerPoint; and the God is always “de-escalation” at all costs. The Ukrainians do not subscribe to this theory because it has no basis in reality when their homes, cities, and civilians are being destroyed; to win a war you must push escalation dominance and do what it is needed to ensure victory, not play pocket pool until the presidential electi…
Hello All, Just sent out my weekend update. Big Story as you would expect is the Ukrainian Kursk Offensive. Ukrainians are carving out quite a large defensible area, and if they can take the bridges out across the Seym it could even be larger (and more defensible).
Plus, Ukraine is keeping up its campaign against Russian airfields (though…
During the American Civil Way the Union side sent 50 men into the Confederacy to burn bridges wherever they could. The plot failed but the Confederacy realised how vulnerable their road and rail systems were and took 100,000 troops from the battlefield to protect the bridges. During WW2 the Russian Army did not bother liberating the Crimea and Germany left 50,000 troops there which could have been better used in defending the Fatherland. They did the same in Crete and other locations at a time …
I met the most charming little boy at work. He couldn’t have been more than eight, but his poise and good humored conversation delighted me.
He was at my window at the Children’s play space where I work, interpreting the information I gave him to his aunt and mom who could only speak Arabic. He explained all of this to me quite matter of factly.
Through his role as interpreter he managed to explain that we didn’t take cash but they could use a credit card. He showed them how to work the machi…
I met the most charming little boy at work. He couldn’t have been more than eight, but his poise and good humored conversation delighted me.
He was at my window at the Children’s play space where I work, interpreting the information I gave him to his aunt and mom who could only speak Arabic. He explained all of this to me quite matter of factly.
Through his role as interpreter he managed to explain that we didn’t take cash but they could use a credit card. He showed them how to work the machi…
At a laundromat in Arizona I was loading a machine next to a Navajo family when I accidentally dropped an item of clothing. Their tiny two year old instantly swooped in, collected it off the floor, and hoisted it upward toward the heights where we giants stood, just to be helpful, useful, part of Team Human ❤️
I’m a retired lawyer, not a high-powered wunderkind, but just kinda did law for 30 or 40 years, and then retired. But it makes me wild to see all these lawyers (looking at you, Mike Johnson, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Lindsey Graham, etc.) denigrating our legal system and acting like ignoramuses about how the judicial system works. No, Mike, SCOTUS does not swoop in and overturn a state verdict because you don’t like a jury’s decision-where did you go to law school? Perhaps an appeal of trump’s con…