Category Archives: Politics

Do you feel more secure?

With many crack federal agents like this, don’t you feel safer at night? Isn’t harassment of people necessary in our post 9/11 world, especially when it happens to them rather than us?

I mean the Supreme Court has already given law enforcement an open license to request anyone’s ID, requiring only the flimsiest of pretenses. Who are we to argue or be upset?

D-Day

Today is the sixtieth anniversary of D-Day: the date when the Allies of World War II began their invasion of France to defeat the Axis powers in Europe. It is without a doubt one of the most spectacular battles of all time, and represents probably the single greatest achievement of logistics in warfare ever. It’s been some time since topics related to WWII were at the top of my reading list, but I remember Ryan’s The Longest Day as being informative and a good read. You can look at this Amazon list for other books that might help you learn about the events surrounding June 6th, 1944.