Midway through my 1970–71 tour of duty in Vietnam, a fellow GI invited me to join him at his weekly religious service. Aaron was the only African American soldier in…
This whole business of cheapo drones dominating modern battlefields has got me wondering if our military planners have forgotten about Occam’s Razor. For the philosophically disadvantaged, that’s a theory which…
Some sports column topics are of broader interest than others. Not everyone cares about mascots or women’s basketball or the 1936 Olympic rowing team.
Still, there’s always the Red Sox.…
I’ve written about sports mascots several times over the years, usually lamenting progressive bullies who’ve “cancelled” so many symbols and nicknames. Some fair points were raised about some Native American Indian Indigenous…
From my aging Boomer perspective, it came as a jolt to discover there’s a big percentage of young Americans who either can’t drive cars or don’t want to. What’s this…
Get some. I’m not sure what that some was anymore. A remnant of war, slip of the past, a time when everything was at its worse and you and the…