Category Archives: Heroes, Comrades and Brothers

L’Estro Armonico (and, tangentially, Gene Simmons)

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Alaska

Nowadays you can find even obscure pieces of classical music but a click away on YouTube (such as the Wolf’s Glen scene from Weber’s Der Freischuetz, I mean, that’s amazing really).   In the past, music majors such as my … Continue reading →

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RIP Stephen Hawking

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Alaska

Steve Hsu has a nice post about Hawking, with good links to Roger Penrose’s obit and some reminiscences of Hsu’s personal encounters with the great man and his staff. (How many people can say they’ve carried Stephen Hawking?) Hsu recalls … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of The Day, 01/02/17 — Vice Edition

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Alaska

(He had done, he liked to say, all the vices.) —Larissa MacFarquhar, describing philosopher Bernard Williams in her endlessly-delightful New Yorker article on the late Derek Parfit, “How to Be Good.” I find her prose, BTW, to be both astonishing … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hsu and Some Guy Who Played Bongos

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Alaska

To some of us, this photo has the same emotional resonance as the one of Bill Clinton shaking JFK’s hand had to a very different tribe: I still try to reread Feynman’s QED every year. You should too.  

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Ray Carter

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Phil Kadath

I didn’t know Ray well. Heck, I’d only met him a handful of times. But he was a good guy. I first met him during the fight to keep the city government of Seattle from banning concealed carry on city … Continue reading →

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I’ve been asked

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Phil Kadath

Why I don’t have one of those “I *heart* Guns & Coffee” stickers on my vehicles. It’s because I don’t like coffee. This guy didn’t like either of them, apparently A  customer with a concealed carry permit shot and killed … Continue reading →

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It is said

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Phil Kadath

That if you live your life without making enemies, you did it wrong. Antonin Scalia did it right Antonin Scalia’s Enemies Only Prove His Greatness Scalia was a good Catholic, and a sine qua non of good Catholicism is recognizing that one … Continue reading →

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Rock & Roll Heaven

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Phil Kadath

RIP Lemmy Kilmister Godspeed, indeed.

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Lend-Lease for the 21st Century

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Phil Kadath

How did this get past the Obama Pentagon? Suppose you have a brand-new aircraft carrier, but the jets that will operate from that ship won’t be available in sufficient quantities for another five years.  How do you utilize that platform … Continue reading →

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How?

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Phil Kadath

Did this guy get through the barricade of politics? As Gen. Mark A. Milley was sworn in as the Army’s 39th chief of staff on Friday, he offered a stern warning that the United States must remain prepared to handle … Continue reading →

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