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• There Are No Dangerous Weapons, Only Dangerous Men August 31, 2026
  “There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”— Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959) Spend enough time around soldiers, police officers, hunters, or responsible gun owners and you will eventually hear some version of that quote. Spend enough time in the aftermath of a tragedy and you will hear the opposite: that the […]
  Charles Faint
• The War That Won’t Wait for Us August 31, 2026
  By Carlin McKeahow Picture a command post at two in the morning. The coffee has been sitting on the burner too long. Somebody has half a sandwich beside a keyboard, and nobody remembers whose it is. On a large screen, a cluster of enemy drones appears at the edge of defended airspace. The operators know […]
  Special Guest
• Kind of Feral August 31, 2026
  While we were in Texas visiting our son’s family, Karin, Asher, and I spent nearly all of our waking hours in their double-wide home. The double-wide stands on an acre of wooded land, mostly live oaks and cedars. However, since it was the early part of August, the kids were indoors most of the time. […]
  Frank Pauc
• Anything to Stay in the Fight August 30, 2026
  By an anonymous female Afghanistan combat veteran I was sitting on the plane somewhere over the American southwest thinking about how long I had felt like I was going to explode into a million tiny fragments when it happened. That’s when I realized it. I already had. I was already violently disassembled into particles that […]
  Special Guest
• Drink After Drink… I Drift Away August 30, 2026
  Drink after drink, song after song. I begin to drift away. I forget the present and drift into the past. I am in a world of plywood, not drywall. I am in a world of bullets, not butterflies. I am in a world of destruction, not peace.  Drink after drink, song after Song. I begin to drift away. I drift […]
  Jake Smith