America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are