For Veterans’ Day: In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below… We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were […]

The ones who’ve brought us a minivan commercial featuring Judas Priest’s “The Hellion,” that is. Dont’ get me wrong.  With all the drivel on TV, I welcome hearing KK Downing and Glenn Tipton’s guitars screaming at me from my set.  But for a minivan? And what’s with the chinless androgyne who is apparently, to the […]

Mr. Vujnovich received the Bronze Star today for the single biggest rescue of US servicemen ever — and it happened in WWII.  Vujnovich, who is 95, led the OSS’s Halyard Mission to rescue more than 500 downed airmen, all shot down over Serbia while on bombing raids targeting the German oilfields in Romania. And God […]

Note:  I wrote this almost a year ago, for a newsletter I used to publish.  It seems a good time to revisit it. CHARLES ALBERT WELCH, JULY 4, 1943 — OCTOBER 10, 2009 Your Extreme Editor Says Goodbye To His Father-in-Law I won’t try to tell you all that much about Charles Welch.  He loved […]

Capt. Jack Conroyd, comparing his landing with malfunctioning landing gear to Capt. Chesley “Sulley” Sullenberger’s ditching in the Hudson River after losing both engines: “What Sullenberger did was significantly more difficult than what we did. He’s a hero,” Conroyd said. “When we came in to land, we had both engines running. And we landed on […]

Check out the motorcycle he built from the ground up — he welded his own frame and did the paint himself, among many other feats of gearhead supermanhood.

Here’s a useful skill to know. H/t to Gizmag.

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”  — C. S. Lewis

My wife, the sweet Miss ViVi, arrived home from a run shortly after I finished my post about Spirit and Jay Ferguson.  I mentioned the connection to her, and she recognized neither “I Got a Line On You” nor “Thunder Island.” Yes, she’s been my faithful companion for nearly a quarter century.  And sure, she’s given […]

God bless Robert Cribb and the service he’s rendered society with his “Ogling Women a Natural Reflex.” My favorite bit is this: But if the socially repulsive act of staring at beautiful women is actually an artifact of ancient DNA, surely the trance-induced man should get a little latitude, no? Even criminal law acknowledges temporary […]