RSS- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
- Britain? Kaput! By Walrus.
- Declaration “Dignitas Infinita” on Human Dignity
- The situation and some possible courses of action … A Pat Lang post reposted from 26 February 2022
Category Archives: Prose
I Prefer MY Early – From “Death Piled Hard”
-November 6th, 1863- (Somewhere Near Culpeper, Virginia) Jubal Early chewed reflectively. “If I understand correctly,” he said. “You met everybody of importance in Richmond. You must have been a busy man.” He and Balthazar lounged in camp chairs built of … Continue reading
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“Alone In Paris: a Bit of Autobiography” By Richard Sale
Out my open window, the Paris sky showed a cold gray above the half-hid rooftops glistening in the rain. It was the month of May. I was 23-years old. I lay atop the hard bed in the attic … Continue reading
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“Goliath” by Max Blumenthal
"Parash Hill is a scenic overlook near Sderot, which is one of the underserviced development towns originally constructed in Southern Israel to accommodate some of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who arrived to Israel from Arab nations during the 1940s … Continue reading
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The Suskind book and a possible bill of impeachment.
"A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to … Continue reading
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War Against the American People – McClellan Speaks
"…in a chapter titled "Selling the War," he alleges that the administration repeatedly shaded the truth and that Bush "managed the crisis in a way that almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the only feasible option." "Over … Continue reading
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“SUNRISE AT OMAHA” Sidney O. Smith III
Like the rest of us, none of these soldiers wanted to die. None of them wanted to fight a war. In fact, these men despised war as much as any generation. In their hearts, they wanted to be back home, … Continue reading
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LK on “The Butcher’s Cleaver”
"Dear Col. Lang — I’ve now read "The Butcher’s Cleaver." It’s both a remarkable and a very unusual book, with those qualities being inseparable, I believe. In particular, there is its pervasive, perambulating, almost dreamlike air — both in narration … Continue reading
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“Who Loveth Best” Alan Farrell
I put this on once before but there are now so many new Farrell "Groupies" that I thought I should give you another chance to contemplate the deep symbolism of this neo-Kafkaesque gem. pl Download who_loveth_best.pdf
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“A Purple Heart and A Dime” Alan Farrell
I thought about writing something today about the looming menace of Iranian ICBMs (quoting the commander guy here) or the irony of the thought that we might bomb Kurds because they are an unruly pain in the tail. Yes I … Continue reading
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“Cortez in Darien” Alan Farrell
"The Greeks. The Greeks. In our A-Camp stood, among the weapons racks and jungle plane antenna cables and duty rosters, a biiiiiiiiiiiiig white Kelvinator refrigerator, packed with unrationed Cokes kept cold by an eternally-running 10-KW generator whose cycle-setting (the gauge … Continue reading
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