Words seem so inadequate today

Just when it seems like society can’t throw you a curve worse than the last senseless tragedy, something inexplicable happens to show how wrong you can be. I was born after the Second World War so all of the horrors I write about in my stories are nothing more than what I imagine they would […]

Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
All day long today I have enjoyed seeing the pictures of men and women in uniform being saluted by so many people. Their service is precious and appreciated by so many. That’s probably why I was so angry when I saw this letter tonight in the McKeesport Daily News. No, angry…

Originally posted on Pavel Kosenko:
My Russian blog started to be visited by many English speaking readers after I posted the following post. I thought it would be great to give this post a special place in my new English blog, and let it be one of the first publications. *** I regularly visit the…

The Odometer Continues to Roll… Thank You

Sometime last evening, the view counter on this blog rolled past 50,000 hits. I had actually been anticipating the event for a few days now since it seemed like a pretty significant number. 50,000. I don’t think I have ever done anything that got a score of 50,000 (except maybe pinball which I gave up […]

Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
I wrote this story a few years ago before the current North Korean situation evolved. I wonder how real it could actually be The launch was not detected by our satellites because they were looking in the wrong area. No one would have suspected that the slow moving foreign flagged freighter…

Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/01/first-same-sex-marriage-being-celebrated-saturday-at-west-points-cadet-chapel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo Oh happy day, break out the bubbly, the Nation’s first gay marriage at West Point. I can barely contain my joy. Oh well. They can explain it to the big Guy themselves when the time comes. I am now officially done with worrying about traditions. Go Navy. Beat Army. Mister…

Originally posted on theleansubmariner:
Our friends at Webster’s define the word narrative as follows: “a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.” I like that definition since it allows the reader or listener to ultimately make up their own mind whether the narrator is telling the truth or a…

Those whacky libs in the press room are at it again

Boy, they really taught us a lesson… Happy Labor Day

Driving through McKeesport this afternoon, I was struck with just how desolate a town could become At any moment, I expected tumbleweeds to come flying down Walnut Street. The Daily News building is still there but the People’s Bank building with the gigantic columns has a number of For Sale signs in the once ornate […]

A moment of silence, a flag at half staff

It’s become so common in our modern age to reflect on tragedies, sadly they almost become commonplace. Another shooter, another plane falls from the sky, another senseless attack in a faraway land. Life is fragile enough already without adding the chaos of a twisted mind. Yet despite the sadness (or maybe because of it) we […]