The Latest:
5/4/2025: Flash Post #14 – On Bertolt Brecht’s “The Interrogation of the Good”. The firing squads are purely aspirational, I assure you. Did I say aspirational? I meant metaphorical. Anyway, it’s got nothing to do with current events and references to fascism are entirely coincidental.
10/13/2024: Flash Post #13 – Watch Team Remus, in which my career flashes before my eyes over a piece of paper someone else printed. Hilarity ensues. Navy Birthday post.
2/20/2024: Five Reads of The Caine Mutiny – Or: Who Wore it Best?, in which I walk through five different takes on Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny, corresponding to five different stages in my naval career. The bottom line? Greenwald is full of shit (and so is Aaron Sorkin). See also Flash Post #11 – Review: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023).
Featured Blog Posts:
- 9/26/22: Navy Officer Accessions, SARBs, and the Nuke Draft, in which I relate my experiences working in the Officer Accessions Department at USNA.
- 8/14/21: Cowardice in Afghanistan. Some thoughts on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
- 7/4/21: When We Move On. I started writing about the Navy, but then I realized I just didn’t care that much anymore. So instead I wrote about Ayn Rand and Objectivism.
- 2/15/21: They Fought for Their Rights (and the Confederate Army Hanged Them For It). A Confederate war crime serves as the framework for an examination of southern heritage and the legacy of the so-called Confederate States of America.
- Retrospective Part 1 – The “Deployments”, in which I share some pictures, words, and memories about my time stationed aboard a destroyer homeported in Japan, and Retrospective (2 of… ?), in which I must leave Japan for the new and exciting land of… Japan. But this time on an aircraft carrier! But it only gets worse with Retrospective 3 – Working for a Criminal in the Shadow of Fat Leonard. How could things possibly get any worse? Oh, boy… just wait for #4!
Songs of Babylon 