Month: October 2012

The Wisdom of the Great Khan

(Genghis Khan, born Temujin, was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his demise. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia).   I have been up long enough this morning to be agitated, but I am not […]

Nimitz Day

It is the anniversary of Nimitz Day this morning, sixty-eight years since the phalanx of motorcycles escorted Chest Nimitz down Pennsylvania Avenue. The Fleet Admiral is one of the great leaders in American military history, but there are only two things in public service that remain dedicated to his memory. One is the lead ship […]

The Great Debate

Great taste? Less filling? hahaha. I may look for the whole debate on the web when I get back to the office this afternoon. I am escorting Mac to the dedication of the intelligence center named for his former Commanding Officer, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and I have no idea what the command is going […]

Fortune Tellers

For our gentle readers in Fly Over Country, I think you can take a certain amount of satisfaction in the fact that our Beltway Cloud Cuckoo Land is about to crash to ground and join the rest of the country. I am not going to whine about it. We have had an excellent decade in […]

Why Weight?

(Pat Caddell outlines the shape of a rigged game. Photo AIM.) I already voted. Why wait? I tried to stay away from it, but the weight of the evidence this morning is that something is very, very wrong. It is almost overwhelming. I am NOT a Republican- I am way “left” of them on every […]

Mirror Mirror

This was a weekend for projects on the farm. It was supposed to rain, and it did, like gangbusters on Friday night, complete with wild electrical flashes. But Saturday dawned crisp and clear and new-washed, and it was time to get back down to the farm and see what the Autumn had dragged in. It […]