The Famous Fur Bikini I just saw some clickbait ad that said Raquel Welch will turn 80 this year in September – 80. She is still one of the most beautiful women to have ever graced the Planet Earth and for most of us, she never really got old – but here we all are. […]

Editor’s note: People are chasing the astonishing amount of newly printed money flying about. Some perfectly reasonable people have tried to find a path forward through the current dislocation. This is Point Loma’s take. -Vic Taking Things off the Table – and The New Normal Taking things off the table is another way of stating […]

“Captain, USN, Departing.” Much ballyhoo has been made about the case of Captain Bret Crozier, skipper of the TR, and his stand on taking care of his crew, however painted quixotically it has been. I never, ever thought that there would be a SECNAV dumber than Ray Maybus, but then along came Modly. As Bugs […]

The thing about the skipper of the TR getting relieved is really chapping my ass. so i have to write an an allegory about that since i’m so pissed off at would-be SECNAV Modly and his fellow cast of OPNAV fools. it is way past time to keep treating naval operators as would-be criminals, and […]

Gene Kranz, NASA Mission Control Flight Director How would you like to get this ass-chewing? “Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we […]

Charles Krauthammer Some people transcend time and space – here’s one. It is a little around a year and a half from his passing, which still is a national tragedy. I miss this man and his common sense genius greatly. He was such a fixture on Fox News and in our lives. I always made […]

This is a Christmas Story, I promise… So why am I, a quasi-Naval Aviator and Intel professional writing about trucking? The writer’s muse is a horny bitch without mercy, and she strikes without warning. I am at her bidding, so here goes… Driving big trucks is a lot of fun. I got my start when […]

Editor’s Note: Christmas Eve and the hope for peace, and memories of The Long War. – Vic 24 December 2019 Mayhem, Like Meigs I’ve written about the air war during Desert Storm, now I will bookend it with my recollections of the ground war and the almost 20-year aftermath – and how it has come […]

The Quarterdeck No one who worked in the Pentagon on 9/11 thought that war would blaze itself into their lives that bright and lovely Tuesday morning. And I’m pretty sure that no one at NAS Pensacola had any idea of what was going to happen to them last week. And now we learn that it […]

Screen Shot 2019-12-04 at 9.09.03 AM.png Navy SEAL Chief Edward Gallagher “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.”[1] I’ve been watching this drama with great interest from afar – as much as one can within the beltway of the Swamp. It has fucked up everyone from the President right […]