Friday, August 31, 2018

Hurricane Harvey

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One year ago today, I was into my seventh of 23 straight 12-hour days. I served as the WebEOC communications desk for the Texas State Guard ...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

A Critic Meets the Military

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Write about what you know. Every student of journalism, fiction, or poetry hears that from our teachers. Carol Burke was already a professor...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Dining Out Ceremony

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The Officer Candidate School of the Texas State Guard held a reunion dinner for all classes 2001-2017, last Saturday night, August 18. I wa...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

The Wizard of Oz and the Anti-Intellectual Tradition

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“Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through the slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from we have univers...
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Friday, August 10, 2018

Armadillocon 40, Part 1

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Once again, we had a great time at Austin’s very literary science fiction convention. They have no filkfest singing, no television stars as...
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Armadillocon 40, part 2

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After a bit of lunch on Sunday, I went to "Once and Future Military SF" at 1300 hours. Moderator William Ledbetter has experience...
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Sunday, August 5, 2018

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

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Nothing has changed in the fifty years since Richard Hofstadter chronicled the history of anti-intellectualism. The warning bell may seem m...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

After Action Report: Heartbreak Ridge

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Heartbreak Ridge  is a good action story with few leadership lessons. Dissenting for the sake of the task is one of the ethical standards ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave

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When has our republic not been in danger of invasion from without or subversion from within?  "[A] populist strand ... has run thr...