Death…and Taxes (Pre-Department of Homeland Security Civil Defense Logo) I am not sweating this tax day. The die was cast more than a month ago for me, and with some effort, we got Mom and Dad’s done, too. For me, it seems a distant memory. The snow was deep, the forms received from the banks, […]

(The real Joe Rochefort (R) and the Movie version (L))   It was a strange day. The Nuclear conference wrapped up downtown at the convention center. The First Lady made a dramatic appearance in devastated Port au Prince. The talking heads are speculating on the impact of the retirement of Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, […]

  “We rambled Armageddon roads for a mighty long time, paying no mind to the signs. Got lost after becoming perfect war hammers, when Dutch hoisted our victory flag. Talk show fumes now choke out sun’s light. Many pray and clean their guns at night.” – A Nuclear Pal’s take from Key West, with inspiration […]

(Orthodox Crosses in the dark woods of the Katyn Forest near Smolensk) We talked about oil and gas yesterday. Here is the deal: If oil costs more than $72 a barrel, Russia continues to get rich. With that wealth, they can invest in military equipment and mischief. Oil this morning is just south of $84 […]

  It is a lovely morning in Virginia, and at the moment, you cannot hear the sound of drilling. That is going to change.   Oil is holding steady at what OPEC thinks is the “prefect price.” That is around $85 bucks a barrel at the moment, high enough to sustain the lunatics who control […]

(McLean House, Appomattox Village, Virginia) I was going to bore you with some fun anecdotes from the nuclear madness of the last several decades, but something came up. There is plenty of time to talk about the half-life of horror, and we can get to it presently. It was a couple lifetimes ago that this […]

(Russian Oil production in Siberia)   I think I would rather be the president of Kyrgystan than me today, though I would rather be me than Virginia’s Governor McDonald, who stumbled into issuing a proclamation declaring this month to be Confederate History Month.   Don’t get me wrong: I am proud of the ancestors who […]

(American Imam Anwar al-Awlaki)   There are some pretty amazing things going on out there. Now that the Health Care matter has been settled, the Administration is spinning off all sorts of action items that were on the back-burner.   Secretary Gates announced the a new nuclear strategy that exempts all nations that are in […]

I have been reading again lately. It is a change for the better. We wade through the weird information that seems to be important at the moment- Tiger’s libido, the change in nuclear policy, you know.   Like you, I spend too much time most days peering into the computer screen, one way or another, […]

It was a weird Easter weekend, sandwiched around the stupid Final Four encounter that saw my son’s Spartans head for the exit and the Home Opener last night between the Red Sox and the hated Yankees.   As I mentioned yesterday, I took the bike down to the farm on Saturday- found that the country […]