Retired Major Lionel Eldridge was browsing items in a bazaar of relics, antiques, and curios when he happened upon a strange artifact. It was a pale doll with darkened eyes. It was attempting to be a darling little girl partially wrapped in a shawl. In a way he was reminded of the little girl in a tragic Christmas story who burned matches on a…

I’d made a reservation for a cabin a day before Halloween was to fall. I guess watching little kids in costumes years after my divorce and my kids grown up left an empty feeling in the pit of my stomach, so decided to avoid that this year. What pissed me off was the state park’s placement of my cabin on the very outer edge of the cabin sites and…

A war that Vladimir Putin sold to his people that would be a cake walk that would be over in a few days has stretched into 4 years! According to the documented records of drone visually recorded drone kills, 250 thousand Russian troops have been killed not wounded-killed. Altogether some 1.4 million Russian soldiers have been wounded, killed, and taken…

One of the saddest aspects of reducing a society into chaos and division is propaganda, which is just one of many tenants of asymmetric warfare. Turning one citizen against another over ideology is paramount to creating a conquerable environment. Today we see pampered college students who likely finished high school because they were indoctrinated…