“It don’t hurt a bit to be shot in a wooden leg.” General John B. Gordon, 1863
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” General John Sedgwick, 1864, moments before he was shot dead by a sharpshooter’s bullet in his brain.
“If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be [...]
The Man Who Drew Mice
Jim Oberg, former NASA Scientist and prolific author, always has provocative things to say on his blog. I became interested in his work when I was studying the old Soviet space program and his investigations (e.g. Red Star in Orbit, Uncovering Soviet Disasters) were the best available. If you need to know what is really [...]
I am fiddling with the blog over the next few days to make it more user friendly.
Of course, this means I had to reset everyone’s password. Write me if you need help logging on.
An interesting effort at Space Debate.org: Expanding the Debate on Space Weaponization.
The Blog is in early development and the quality is spotty, but this could turn into a very useful tool.
Looking for just the right bullet for that special employee?
(Any and all names in the following examples are entirely fictional. Resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincident. No animals were harmed in the making of this list):
He never appears stressed about his work. Many employees have indicated that they are eager to comment [...]
aka: The Fastest Fat Man in the Air Force
I had intended to title this blog “the Narcissist,” but that has been taken. Dolmania gives the same sense of self-absorption, yet adds a bit of bipolar disorder befitting my personality (versus the continuous angst-ridden torment of most personal blogs today, akin to the boo-hoo-my-life-sucks genre of modern pop music). Still, it is not a large [...]