On my desk is one of those calendars sent out every year by veterans’ organizations with significant military anniversaries highlighted in red. You’ve likely got one or something like it…
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Some high weirdness at hand this week. Read several articles in my daily dump of trivial information and was immediately infested with an earworm. Now I’m bouncing around the house…
Today’s lecture is on phaleristics. We’ll pause while you Google that and discover that it’s a term from the Greek for the study of medals, ribbons, and other decorations. Since…
My guess is fifteen minutes.
The question is how long did it take North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to slap his three senior naval architects up against a wall…
It’s impossible, and in a way inappropriate, to try to say anything more about music icons Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, both of whom passed away recently. It’s almost as…
Guilty as charged, your honor. And I plead no contest to talking smack about the U.S. Army as opportunity allowed for three decades or more. Extenuation and Mitigation? Well, I’m…
Another Memorial Day has come and gone. And for the first time in a long time, I wasn’t called on to make a speech or be part of a ceremony…
Thinking now about adjusting my preoccupations. Maybe go from itinerant keyboard rattling to astronomy. Just staring at the stars and watching for any action. Seems like a growth field these…
What do Bruce Springsteen, leukemia, the Funk Brothers, Afghanistan and Iraq, Chuck Berry, bone marrow transplants, and blue-eyed soul have to do with Stewart Francke and his music?
Everything.
Stewart…
It’s time for another of Professor Dye’s lectures on the misuse of the English Language. Fortunately for fans, friends, and followers of these occasional screeds, there will be no exams.…
I wasn’t in Vietnam that April 1975. My Vietnam April, come she will, was four years earlier as a U.S. Army combat correspondent with Command Headquarters at Long Binh. So,…
Houthis and hemorrhoids. About the same thing if you ask me. Both are nagging irritants with potential for serious problems if left untreated. Our U.S. Navy and Air Force along…