A long, long time ago, I was at my local Walmart after work and noticed a t-shirt in the men’s department that looked a lot like a Nazi Death’s Head, a Totenkopf. I took a picture of it with my Motorola Razr flip-phone. When I got home, I compared the photo I took at Walmart to an …
My Air Force Days
Happy Fourth of July
Today is the Fourth of July, the anniversary of when our ancestors declared their independence from Great Britain. According to my calculations, we’ve been our own country for 88,388 days or more plainly put, 242 years. My ancestral origins My mother’s side of the family has been here since the beginning. Knowing them like I think I do, they were …
Allow me to mansplain the fallacy of ‘white male privilege’
For a while now I’ve heard about something called white male privilege. As a white male who has never felt especially privileged, I never quite understood what the term was trying to refer to. I think I first heard about it when one of my favorite science fiction authors at the time, John Scalzi, wrote about it …
Toys R Us 1957 – 2018
Toys R Us is going out of business. They owe more money to creditors than what they have and have declared bankruptcy. I keep reading that Toys R Us will be liquidating their current inventory with massive sales. The science fiction blog io9 said that sale was to begin yesterday. That didn’t happen. I went …
Billy Graham 1918 – 2018
Famed evangelical Christian evangelist Billy Graham died. He was 99 years old. I saw Billy Graham speak in person once. It was in 1990 while I was in the Air Force. I had just PCS’d (permanent change of station) – moved – from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam to Griffiss Air Force Base in upstate …
You can be morbidly obese and a G.I. Joe
I saw this variant cover to G.I. Joe #5 on Twitter. It shows a morbidly obese woman on a snowy mountaintop pointing to something in the far off distance. As someone who has had his fair share of problems with their weight, this cover speaks to me. When I was in the Air Force, my weight …