It is not a particularly happy chapter in his life, he did not serve himself nor the country well, he was, there's no kinder or gentler word for it, a fool."
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
The Best and the Brightest
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- The Clickety-clack and the Heat. Mind the gap (literally).
- Glenn Reynolds: Bringing back the 'spoils system?' Yes please!
- Jonathan Turley on Supreme Court reaffirming Executive power.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
In a 6-3 decision the Supreme Court ruled the President has to right to fire certain federal employees including Federal Trade Commission employees. This ruling could go a long way in draining the swamp.
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Monday, June 29, 2026
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- This year's Mark Twain prize goes to Bill Maher.
- The Warriors pursuing LeBron James and Anthony Davis? Silly season in the NBA has arrived.
- What Lincoln's second inaugural says to America at 250.
- The Declaration of Dependance. Some history I did not know.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Get the feeling that's we've both reached the regime change part of the war with Iran but also the point where we say to allies with air forces like Saudi Arabia and Israel, "Hey guys would you like some live fire practice? They're the ones who said no to peace so here's your chance to take out some long built up frustration or take revenge."
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Sunday, June 28, 2026
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- America, you saved my life. A look at the US from it's founding today. How can you not think that our brightest days are still to come?
- Dave Portnoy: How I built Barstool Sports. Article should be free for all to read.
- Jonathan Turley: Democrats learn the mob has a mind of its own.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
With today being Mel Brooks 100th birthday you may be asking what do you get for the man who has everything? Well how about the Presidential Medal of Freedom - he doesn't have one of those yet.
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Saturday, June 27, 2026
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- Glenn Reynolds: The Commies Mount an Across the Board Push.
- If this new technology is real it could be a space travel game changer.
- From the archives: How John Steinbeck used his daily diary as a tool of discipline.
- G1 Unitree Robot review. Chinese company founded in 2016. Think general use roots are a ways off.
McNamara vs. Iacocca (Ford v Ferrari)
As an aside thought but while reading David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest I couldn't help but make an observation. Halberstam wrote:
But after he left, Lee Iacocca, who would eventually succeed him said that Bob McNamara had damn near ruined Ford by pushing that Falcon, too simple a car, with too small a profit for the company. Iacocca symbolized exactly the opposite of McNamara in the auto world... Lee brought in the Mustang, a car designed for the American consumer in just the way McNamara's cars were not.
It occurred to me that in the Matt Damon, Christian Bale movie Ford v Ferrari neither McNamara or Lee Iacocca is portrayed although Henry Ford II plays a significant role. Guess if either McNamara or Iacocca was portrayed it might have taken the film down a significant rabbit hole that was not central to the plot.
By the way - I enjoyed both the book and the movie.
EDIT: Mea culpa! Iacocca was portrayed in the movie. I just overlooked him several times. My bad.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Have the feeling that the Iranian war has moved away from the thought of being an active war in most people's minds. It's become just a live fire exercise for the US Military in many minds - as long as the price of gas at the pump isn't effected.
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Friday, June 26, 2026
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
"Virtue is multifaceted for Smith, but his big three are prudence, justice, and beneficence. These are the traits that make us lovely and that in turn make us respected and admired by those around us - the traits that make us loved.
What does Smith mean by prudence, justice, and beneficence? For Smith, prudence means in modern terms, taking care of yourself, justice means not hurting others, and beneficence means being good to others. That's not a bad trio for thinking about how to live the good life. Be good to yourself and be good to others."
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- Books for America's 250th Anniversary. That's quite a list - actually two lists.
- Liberals Love Performative Empathy. Inconvenient truths.
- Jonathan Turley" Supreme Court takes on Hawaii's Vampire Rule on gun possession.
- DataRepublican: How USAID build a global Color Revolution infrastructure with NGO's.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
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The South Korean stock market has reportedly been halted after falling over 8% but our stock market is fine. There's devastating earthquakes in Venezuela and heat waves in Europe but here in the US were only concerned with a little rain. Not even sure what's real any more.
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The Best and the Brightest
"That McNamara's role was major, the he was by default usurping the role of the Secretary of State, did not faze him. He was intelligent, forceful, courageous, decent, everything in fact but wise...
If it just been a matter of getting the right goods to the right villages, we would have won; unfortunately, what we were selling was not what they were buying. This man, whose only real experience had been in dealing with the second largest automotive empire in the world, producing huge Western vehicles, was the last man to understand and measure the problems of a people looking for their political freedom."
In the words of President Lyndon Johnson, "I forgot he had only been president of Ford for one week."
Thursday, June 25, 2026
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- The rational optimist's guide to AI. "Instead of asking 'How do I use AI?' ask what you want to achieve."
- Learn something new every day - there was a reason Elvis was the King.
- Kevin Kelly: Why are LLM's smart?
- Jonathan Turley: Chicago teachers seek billions more despite failing schools.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Look for President Trump to go on the offensive on things like the Save Act and other 80/20 issues where he's on the right side of public sentiment like illegal immigration. Don't underestimate the effect of him highlighting such issues during the nations upcoming 250th birthday will have on voters patriotic sentiment either.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2026
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- Strategy Requires Storytelling and Pictures, the Right Pictures.
- Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" shutting down permanently sources say. In with a bang - out with a whimper.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
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President Trump is upset that prices at the gas pump are not falling fast enough to mirror the drop in the price of oil. He probably had a price level in mind to mention to the nation during the July 4th 250th celebration. Meanwhile Joe Biden could not get out of Afghanistan fast enough to help in his mind mark the anniversary of 9/11. The difference between the two administrations.
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Priests Playing Poker
The sins associated with playing cards are nothing new. The Synod of 1404 forbade card-playing by the clergy and in 1423 Saint Bernard called for the faithful to go home, get their playing cards and burn them right in the public square outside of Saint Peter's in the Vatican.
I wonder if that ruling against clergy playing cards has ever been rescinded? Personally I can't ever recall seeing a priest at a poker table. And now I really want a version of Dogs Playing Cards but with priests instead.
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Linky Links
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- How to win a space war. Long but interesting read that boils down to - first have a SpaceX.
- The economic costs of the Iran war. Not sure how this changes with a potential decrease in prices at the pump.
Watch as Gas Prices at the Pump Start to Drop
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
The Iran peace deal is back on. Iranian representatives may have originally walked out but they quickly walked back to negotiations when informed if they left they and their whole country would be bombed. The terms included the strait of Hormuz being open, the sanctions against Iran being temporarily lifted, and inspections of the atomic program agreed to which was the whole point of the war in the first place.
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Monday, June 22, 2026
The Best and the Brightest
"[General] Harkins began by corrupting the intelligence reports coming in. Up until 1961 they had been reasonably accurate, clear, unclouded, by bureaucratic ambition... in effect the Administration created a situation where it lied to itself...
His [Harkins] two main distinctions during his years years in service in Vietnam would be, first, that his reporting consistently misled the President of the United States, and second, that it brought him to a point of struggle with a vast number of his field officers who tried to file realistic (hence pessimistic) reports. But even here the fault was not necessarily Harkins'. In all those years he felt that he was only doing what Max Taylor wanted, and there was considerable evidence that this was true, that his optimism reflected back-channeled directives from Taylor...
General Paul Donal Harkins, fifty-seven, was a man of compelling mediocrity...
'He wasn't worth a damn, so he was removed,' [Secretary of Defense] McNamara would say of him later, 'you need intelligent people.' Of course McNamara failed to explain why Harkins had held his position for almost two and a half years."
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- DataRepublican: Our assassination culture - "Traitor for Israel." Hate has twisted many hearts.
- Jonathan Turley on things not going well for Dan Goldman. The left eating their own - kind of amusing.
- Alan Greenspan has passed aged 100.
- The Ramp: Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. Very different emotions from the ones I have of that night.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Wait did Keir Starmer announce he was stepping down as PM before Iran pulled out of peace negotiations? Or the other way around? Perhaps the two are related? That's one way to explain things.
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Sunday, June 21, 2026
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- Unlocking the ocean's economy.
- If you made this self-driving you'd have the new mobile home office.
Father's Day Flotsam and Jetsam
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Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. Today I plan on having a fire in the yard and watching some golf. Taking it easy as the Lord intended.
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Saturday, June 20, 2026
More Linky Links
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- VDH: Iran War Misconception.
- America's biggest industries by economic output.
- "Truly Evil" FDA rejection of gene therapy after Trump official ousted.
The Killer Angels
"'If it weren't for the slaves, there'd never have been no war, now would there?'
'No,' Chamberlain said.
'Well then, I don't care how much political fast-talking you hear, that's what it's all about and that's what them fellas died for, and I tell you, Lawrence, I don't understand it all.'
'No,' Chamberlain said. He was thinking of Kilrain: no divine spark. Animal meat: the Killer Angels."
From Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels. Not sure if they sell this book at the Gettysburg National Military Park but they should stock it in the gift shop.
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- Two top senators urge Trump DOJ to prosecute Fauci despite Biden autopen pardon. Agree - Fauci should be in jail.
- Nathanael Greene was an underappreciated hero of the American Revolution.
- Jonathan Turley: Arkansas shows continued testing improvements from reforms.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
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Thoughts on the big USMNT win over Australia, Joe Biden making the news for all the wrong reasons and some random observations. Meanwhile I'll start on my Father's Day festivities early with breakfast with my youngest today and going up to Maine to see my oldest and my new grandchild tomorrow.
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Friday, June 19, 2026
The Brendan Sorsby Affair
With Brendan Sorsby declaring for the NFL supplement draft - many may feel that the book has been closed on this sordid affair. But that's far from reality. If this was a Broadway play we'd just be about to start the third act.
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- Why 71% of Democrats are wrong not to be proud of America.
- Big 10 and SEC commissioners ripped by key Senator for opposition to Protect College Sports Act.
- Tulsi Gabbard released proof Anthony Fauci lied about Gain of Function on her last day on the job.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
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Paid $4.15 per gallon of gas yesterday. This was already down $.30 from what I paid on Monday and I'm guessing next week it will be back down under $4 a gallon. When it is all said and done what the American people really care about is how any particular policy effects their family budget. As Bill Clinton put it "It's the economy stupid."
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Thursday, June 18, 2026
Soldiers in Jetpacks
The above video has been circulating for a number of years. But were you aware that way back in October of 1961 at Fort Bragg at what is now the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School a demonstration was held showing a soldier with a rocket on his back crossing the water to land on the other side?
Not to mention the opening scene from the 1965 James Bond thriller Thunderball which showed Bond escaping in a jetpack.
We've been promised the ubiquity of jetpacks for a long time now.
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- A serious paper about the path to super intelligence.
- Have federal regulations caused America to embrace liquid gas over nuclear power?
- One whiskey you should bring home from each state. My daughter distills the choice from NJ.
- Kevin Kelly on is AI conscious or not? Excellent point on the creation of language.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
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There's a saying in sports that its not really a rivalry if only one side wins all the time. That's what comes to mind when I hear some asking if Iran won the peace deal. The US was basically bombing at will, controlled the air and the seas, the Iranian atomic program was halted, terrorism around the globe was wiped out, and the regime neutered. This was akin to the Black Knight saying "OK we'll call it a draw."
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026
The Best and the Brightest
The Vietminh did much to get rid of the colonial French from Vietnam after WW II while the politicians in the south did just the opposite. Many fought on the side of the French or profited from the war to expel them. Was it any surprise we would have an issue with "hearts and minds" when we appeared for all purposes to just be taking the place of France and installing our own politicians?
Under President Eisenhower when Dienbienphu fell to the Vietminh - bombing by US forces would rightly have been seen as an act of war. And Eisenhower rightly did not take the bait. President Kennedy opened that door a crack and slowly it swung wide open.
Those in power when the French again took over after WW II knew America should not get involved militarily. At best they'd be on the side of a colonial power when we were the poster child for anti-colonialism and the costs were likely to be more along the lines of the Philippines insurrection from 1899 to 1913 than the Korean conflict. Besides Americans were emotionally exhausted from both WW II and Korea.
By the time President Kennedy was elected - Americans were more rested, China had been "lost" to the Communists, and the US was now an acknowledged Super Power. Plus we were willing to believe in illusions. To paraphrase Richard Feynman, "The easiest person to fool is yourself." David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest tells the story of how America fooled ourselves into the Vietnam war.
Dense history but worth the time.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
This Sunday is Father's Day so don't be surprised if you see a lot of dad's getting a jump on any yard work that needs to be done and for golf tee times to fill up pretty quickly. They know that the kids will insist they take it easy on Sunday with no work and to just do what they want. What many want is to play golf but they also know that lawn ain't going to cut itself.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026
More Linky Links
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- Can America build nuclear again?
- Fox to acquire Roku in $22 billion deal.
- Billion dollar recissions won't fix the trillion dollar debt problem.
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- SpaceX and the Sentient Sun. Like a condensed history of SpaceX and the possible future of SpaceX.
- Is there nothing he can't do?
- Brendan Sorsby saga abruptly ends. But is it really over?
- UFC boss Dana White, "I hate that kind of nonsense." There is a simple way to end this controversy.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
President Trump is on his way to France for the G7 summit. On the Air Force One flight think it's a given that he'll be asked more questions about the wars in Iran and Ukraine than about world economies but what's the odds he also faces more questions about the Obamas or the SpaceX IPO than the actual reason for the trip?
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Monday, June 15, 2026
The Killer Angels
"To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. That is... a very hard thing to do. No other profession requires it. This is one reason why there are so very few good officers. Although there are many good men." - General Robert E. Lee
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- Countering Indoctrination and Deception on Campus. He's not wrong.
- The transformation of AT&T Stadium into Dallas Stadium for the World Cup.
- 84-year old Senator Mitch McConnell admitted to hospital. He should retire.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
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Yesterday was President Trump's 80th birthday and you have to think he had quite a day. A peace deal was reached with Iran and the night saw the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House. You have to think the timing of that event was not coincidental.
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Sunday, June 14, 2026
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- Jonathan Turley: Post-Platner Democrats must ask "Are we the baddies?"
- Data Centers in Space are Going to Happen. Why the SpaceX IPO was so successful.
- How the UFC built an octagon on the White House lawn.
- You knew this was bound to happen. Edit: That video is actually from Iraq.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
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What do you get for the President who has everything? Well how about a peace deal with a defeated Iran and a UFC event at the White House? Happy 80th birthday to Donald Trump.
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Saturday, June 13, 2026
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- Glenn Reynolds: Elon Musk is a Genius and a Litmus Test. Elon should be held in the highest of regards.
- More Pritchett, Less Piketty. The economics are clear.
- Our Achilles Heel. The point about college admissions will stick with me.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Tonight is game 5 of the NBA Finals in San Antonio and the Knicks have the chance to win their first championship since 1973. Have the feeling the Spurs (and maybe the NBA) won't let that happen which would set up a potential ratings bonanza game 6 in NY. Just saying.
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Friday, June 12, 2026
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- ESPN created this monster. "TV money and legalized gambling ruined college sports."
- Dan Wetzel: Sorsby ruling a temporary injunction that will cause permanent damage.
- What would it look like if the AI bubble burst?
- How three economists built blueprints for taking your stuff.
Filling the Ocean
Isaac Newton once said that what we know is a drop but what we don't know is an ocean. He's right of course but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try in our own small way to fill that ocean.
That - in part - is what I try to do with trying to absorb some of the lessons from the quotes I examine and try to take to heart each day. And also with my thoughts on what's going on in the world and what they may mean. Not to mention the reading I try to do each day.
In the movie The Shootist John Wayne buys a newspaper the day he learns he has terminal cancer and is intent of reading that paper cover to cover so he knows what happened on that particular day. I don't have terminal cancer (thank God) but death does come for all of us - memento mori. Shouldn't we use the time allotted to us in our short span and try to fill the ocean of what we don't know but at the same time enjoy the fact we are alive and appreciate the present moment?
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
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A cease-fire /peace deal was reportedly reached between the US and Iran. Again. The nuclear details are to be announced. Most of the details so far seem to favor Iran especially they part where their leaders get to finally come out of their caves and they won't get bombed.
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Thursday, June 11, 2026
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- How America could become a high trust society again.
- Jonathan Turley: Democratic leaders swap "Me Too" for Maine.
- Man-Bear-Pig's Al Gore's inaccurate untruths distorted policy. It was always a hoax.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
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The two big stories this morning are the Knicks amazing comeback to win game 3 of the NBA Finals and the war in Iran devolving to just the US taking target practice. That the NBA Finals seems the top story shows just how little regard the average American is giving to Iran's military at this point.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2026
College Football Thoughts
Was having these anyway and figured may as well jot them down and post on Substack.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
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The Brendan Sorsby ruling continues to soak up all the oxygen in the room when it comes to college football. I plan to have a separate post dealing with that situation later today.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2026
The Killer Angels
"'This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. I don't... this hasn't happened much in the history of the world. We're an army going out to set other men free.'" - Col. Joshua Chamberlain
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- Big 12 discuss options as Brendan Sorsby trial gets February date. What a mess!
- And if anyone questions the results they're racist!
- From the archives: Karl Popper on the line between science and pseudoscience.
- Is the SpaceX IPO the reason for the $2 trillion stock market sell-off?
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Even with the Spurs beating the Knicks last night the big story of the day was Brendan Sorsby being ruled eligible for Texas Tech by a local Lubbock District Court despite being banned for life by the NCAA for gambling. You have to wonder if all the sports books will be pulling Texas Tech games from betting in response?
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Monday, June 08, 2026
Lessons of History
It was well reported that The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman was one of JFK's favorite books. But it was also reported in David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest that JFK may have sent those 18,000 "advisors" to Vietnam as a direct result of the bullying treatment he received from Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. It's as if he didn't lean anything from Tuchman's book.
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
I've also long held that much of the tragedy of WW I was because military leaders failed to learn from the lessons of the American Civil War where trench warfare had it's seeds.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Tonight is game 3 of the NBA Finals and the first finals game at MSG since 1999. Look for any celebrity from New York or any who have shows on ABC or Disney to attend and get plenty of air time. If you did a drinking game of having to take a sip every time a Ben Stiller, Spike Lee, Timothy Chalamet, or other luminary appears on screen - you might be drunk by halftime.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.
Sunday, June 07, 2026
Take Action
The habit of taking action is one of the most important habits one can develop in life.
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More Linky Links
More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- 11 Kettle Bell Exercises to Level Up Your Workouts.
- Jonathan Turley: Virginia Governor may prove greatest gun influencer since Charlton Heston.
- It's hardware's turn to eat the world.
- This summer's sleeper hit is about a man who can't ask a woman out.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- 8 Best Exercises to Help You Sleep at Night. Especially in older adults.
- Iran stops negotiations with US.
- Just learned of the heroics of General Teddy Roosevelt Jr. On D-Day. Where do we find such men?
- From the archives: Dan Carlin on D-Day.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Each day I try to have at least 10 items to discuss in my Flotsam and Jetsam posts. Some days I breeze right past that number. Other days I struggle to get to 10. This was one of the latter days.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.
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