Member of Philadlephia Regional Anti-War Network (PRAWN), Delaware Valley Veterans for America (DelValVets) and First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG).

Retired (Medical discharge) PN3, USN, 1991-2001.  Five years in Norfolk, VA; two years in Gaeta Italy and a year and a half in Pensacola, FL.

History major back in college, still read history stuff for the fun of it. Very highly useful major for parsing propaganda.

Affiliations

Philadelphia Regional Anti-War Network, Delaware Valley Veterans for America

Member Since

Dec 6, 2007

Recent Posts

More scary stories on Iran from the NY Times

More uncorroborated, unconfirmed, terrifying tales from the NY Times about Iran. Update: Juan Cole finds the story, even if true, to be very unpersuasive as a reason to be hostile towards Iran.

The NY Times passes on a report that's, on first read, very scary. It charges that "four Shiite militia members" (From what country? From which militia?) have provided details on training camps ...

Accomplishments?

So just what exactly DID either the Bush Administration or the press corps accomplish over the past 7+ years?

Several years back, I heard about a high school girls cross-country track team. For a reason I forget, it didn't have much in the way of leadership for a whole school year. The girls slacked off and ran at a leisurely pace, didn't really try and didn't push themselves. Their poor performance really ...

Armed Liberal's flawed argument

Argument from a libertarian examined. Is "counterinsurgency" as he defines it compatible with democracy?

Whiskey Fire introduces us to Armed Liberal, who tries to argue that for the Pentagon to hire retired military officers to testify ...

The 16 April Obama-Clinton debate

The left blogosphere is in agreement, the debate was terrible, with far too many "gotcha" questions and far too few questions of substance.

George Stephanopoulos defends the 16 April so-called "debate" between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but really, it was largely just an attack on Obama by Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson. Clinton caught some flak as well, but she ...

Initial reactions on Constitution Center debate

Not terribly enlightening. Debate was very largely about gaffes. Charles Gibson got very excitable about the possibility that someone might raise his taxes.

I agree, whoever won the Clinton-Obama debate, ABC News most definitely lost it. Talking about 60s radicals who were active 40 ...