Today marks the Immortal Bard William Shakespeare’s 454th birthday! The inventor of thousands of new English words, for no reason at all, has been dead some 402 years but he is still very much a
I told you all about my essay on alien sexuality in fiction appearing in the debut issue of a new feminist punk-rock magazine a few weeks ago. This is the second of my previews of this issue of VENUSz
A few days ago I wrote about the conspicuous absence of any news reports of the aftermath of the MOAB strike in Afghanistan. The point of my post was not to declare there had or hadn’t be
“…a lovely, bloodless, corpseless war, just the sort the politicians love.” David Hackworth (1) If images of war set the tone for public support, then the best images are the ones th
If the writers of LGM ever got together in the same place, I believe the alcohol consumption would look something like Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan: As it should now be clear to you, dear reader, So
I went on HuffPo live to talk about this story: A former Soviet soldier has been discovered hiding in Afghanistan under an assumed identity 33 years after going missing. Bakhretdin Khakimov disappeare
I have two largely unrelated pieces that both involve China. First, in the Diplomat: As a regularly scheduled biennial exercise, RIMPAC happens regardless of the extant political situation in the Paci
I talked Afghanistan and naval procurement policy with Alyona last night. The latter starts around 5:35. And if you listen closely around the 4:30 mark you can hear my daughters screaming at each othe