Month: November 2007
In 1841, a previously unsuccessful British adventurer named James Brooke arrived in Brunei. Having served in the army twenty years before, Brooke had decided to purchase a schooner with his.
The Great War ended 89 years ago today; I continue to prefer concrete remembrance of that war to the abstraction that is Veterans Day. Depending on how you count, there.
The Warm Personality of Bill Belichick, The Mad Skillz of Norv TurnerIn light of the failure of even scheduling two service academies to put a mild veneer of respectability on.
I was looking forward to taunting Ohio State fans in Cincinnati as the Ducks pulled 30 points ahead in the national championship game, then getting savagely beaten by said fans..
Via Drum, John McCain:"I don't know Mr. Kerik. I do know that I went to Baghdad shortly after the initial victory and met in Baghdad with (Ambassador Paul) Bremer and.
Norman Mailer, R.I.P. Between his misogyny and authenticity-obsessed nutty politics -- whatever one thinks of the aesthetic quality of the work, I would avoid a first date with a guy.
1923-2007.Mailer has been a relative blind spot among American novelists for me; I've only read The Naked and the Dead (on the subject I prefer James Jones) and Armies of.
So for some reason I have a subscription to the Sports Illustrated. I'm not sure how this happened, but when (apparently) free magazines begin showing up in my mailbox I'm.