When was the last time you cuddled a 3-week-old baby of your own lineage? As I was recently reminded, it’s the most awesome reconfirmation of the miracle of human life. Baby Charlotte is our newest grandchild No. 9. We have just returned from helping the new mom and dad negotiate the first month of tending [...]
“Chaque Homme Est Un Tigre!” So read the giant sign over the entrance to the Battalion spaces of Pensacola’s Preflight Class 47-57 (the 47th class of 1957): “Each Man Is A Tiger!” The words arching over the visage of a snarling tiger. The photo of our preflight class grouped around that sign is one of [...]
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” The decision process for choosing the subject for a weekly column can be quite circuitous, and sometimes yields surprising results. I set out to document the growth of the federal work force under the [...]
Doing research for the best-selling, award-winning hit movie and inspiring book Sea Biscuit, Laura Hillenbrand came across the offhanded comment of the University of Southern California track coach Glenn Cunningham, who speculated : “Hell, the only runner that might be able to beat our Olympic miler, Louie Zamperini, is Sea Biscuit.” When Hillenbrand researched this [...]
OK, so some naive Australian “do-gooder” (far from your average Aussie, by the way) named Julian Assange, who fancies himself the Robin Hood of whistleblowers, founds an organization called Wikileaks with the goal of “disclosing secret documents to reveal unethical behavior by governments and corporations.” Apparently he is the sole decider of what is and [...]
The new Arizona immigration law has caused quite a stir from Los Angeles to Phoenix to Washington, D.C., on the basis that it supposedly encourages racial profiling. But this is incorrect, since it is actually more restrictive on “racial profiling” than the federal law. It actually says in so many words that racial profiling is [...]
