Recap: The dark energy that had been installed inside store-bought steel pipes erupted blindly against the house and everyone in it. Ricky and his mother lay covered in white dust on the rubble. In the corner where the front door had stood, their neighbor Gloria—come in the morning to check on the pair—lay dead in […]
Public relations experts pull wool over eyes of the world as they simultaneously scorch, flood Earth Some of you might be old enough to remember the old Chrysler television commercials starring company president Lee Iacocca himself. It’s the advertising strategy of attaching the face of the successful businessman to the brand. Remington electric shavers put […]
Through no real virtue of its own, the continental United States is shielded from the brunt of many tropical storms (up to and including major hurricanes) by the Caribbean islands. West of Africa’s Cape Verde, where most Atlantic hurricanes form, sit hundreds of islands which—as history shows—absorb much of the destructive energy from cyclones which […]
What can citizens do when those sworn to protect and serve us simply… don’t? I see a fascinating subtext in the case of a Broward County Sheriff deputy who resigned after being accused of failing to take action during the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida high school last week. Sure, we hear a lot […]
Chief of Pacific Command reveals depths of politicians’ propaganda “[Global warming] is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen… that will cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.’’ Admiral Samuel J. Locklear, Commander, United States Pacific Forces Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2013 […]
“A concerned citizen” steps up to the mic at international summit “I’m honored to be here today, I stand before you not as an expert but as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday, and the billions of others around the world who want […]
As catastrophes of all kinds occur more frequently, government does what’s best—for government “… I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So, I was […]
NFL protests highlight Defense Department’s status as second biggest advertiser, inadvertently The old saw says, “There are two sides to every story.” You can’t scan a news site or watch television for five minutes without bumping into an “NFL player protest” or “national anthem” story. The other side of the story? The status of the […]
“Buy-in” follows speaking the language, and buy-in accepts only cash Local and state law enforcement agencies in the United States employ over one million people. The Department of Defense, about two million. Every single one earns every single penny of their paychecks from taxes on the American people. The amount in those paychecks is thus […]
Exaltation of military and police tightly woven into U.S. daily life The September 11, 2001 attacks against targets in the United States and the government’s reaction to it harmed our country in myriad ways, and that harm has spread, morphed, and changed us as citizens, sometimes profoundly. With its tendency to seep into everyday lives […]