Accurate.

The Romans granted full citizenship to soldiers from the provinces **and their families** when they completed their military service. Two thousand years later, how are we dumber than that?

HMSs Wivern and Scorpion were the famous Laird Rams laid down for the Confederacy in 1862 in Birkenhead. Bought by the RN to prevent their transfer to the Confederacy, they are also significant in carrying the first tripod masts on warships replacing shrouds supporting the masts. #NavalHistory

Pit bull/kitten status update: kitten (now 11 months) waits for the pit by the back door.

Painting by Antonio Jacobsen of the Morgan Line ship CHALMETTE (2,983 Registered tons, 1879), that ran in a three-week rotation between New York and New Orleans. From the collection of Rosenberg Library, Galveston. More info here: www.facebook.com/events/14642... #MaritimeHistory Full text in ALT.

The Confederate “heritage” folks are now actively rehabilitating actual Nazis. The man on the left is Lincoln Rockwell (1918-67), founder of the American Nazi Party. I suppose they think they’re being clever and dog-whistling by not identifying him by name. We see you.

These people are so damned dumb, it’s actually a blessing.

Oh, dear. I made a rather mild comment on Twitter about disliking Chuck Norris's politics, while still appreciating the Chuck Norris memes, and the fragile folks over there are angry about my "cramming politics into everything." How will I ever manage? www.thelist.com/2128169/chuc...

He's heading for the exit, even as thousands of Marines and other U.S. military personnel are enroute to the Persian Gulf.

Almost every misstep, scandal, & idiotic moment in Noem’s tenure running ICE had a predecessor during her two terms as South Dakota governor. Every single thing. Free link: archive.ph/R0kl0

No, it is not a real photo. Here is the original image from the Marine Corps archives (and a direct link), and the modern color image used to photoshop it. www.flickr.com/photos/usmca...

LOL. He's making for the exit. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/thin...

Kitten/pit bull status update.

Query for the naval warfare folks — how common is it for ships participating in multinational training exercises to be required to offload ALL munitions, as opposed locking them down and putting in place additional safety procedures? Thanks

Newt Gingrich has now endorsed bypassing the Strait of Hormuz by blasting a new channel with a dozen or so thermonuclear bombs "through friendly territory" in the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Good times, y'all. x.com/newtgingrich...

I served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training for three years before the office was disestablished last year. I owned the policy on professional military education for all five services. I have listened to Secretary Hegseth's announcement. I have thoughts. 🧵

THETIS was built at Cammell Laird & Co. in Birkenhead, and when we were there in 2001 we visited St. Mary's Tower adjacent to the former shipyard, that is preserved as a memorial to the boat and her crew who were lost.

Honestly if one starts to write a paragraph about a conflict with “ignoring any human suffering. . ,” it’s probably better to just stop there and step away from the screen.

Long hidden evidence blows up the reality of the Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film – Modern Cryptozoology moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/l...

A story in four parts. 😭

Looks like Thomas has had just about enough of Sir Topham Hatt’s bullshit.

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Tonight's Galveston then-and-now image is of soldiers marching in a parade in the 2200 block of Avenue F Church Street) in 1918, possibly as part of the Armistice celebrations that year. Rosenberg Library photo G_7586_FF3_2.

Tonight's Galveston then-and-now image is of the Commissary Wagon of the Al G. Barnes Circus, set up opposite the circus grounds in late September 1934. This is on the E side of 51st Street, looking E, near the present-day Salvation Army. Houston Public Library photo MSS0257-B54-0027r.

Marines and bandsmen on the quarterdeck of USS TEXAS (BB-35) at her commissioning, March 12, 1914. Image credit: Battleship TEXAS Foundation. battleshiptexas.org/education/hi... #NavalHistory

There’s nothing in the HOA rules prohibiting this.

Raising the Big Top of the Al G. Barnes Circus in Galveston, September 1934. Moody Stadium, where the Galveston Buccaneers of the Texas League played, is in the background. Houston Public Library image, MSS0257-B54-0017r

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

Slightly embarrassed to learn, at this late date, that the melody of the Marines' Hymn is based on a galop from Offenbach's opera "Geneviève de Brabant" of 1869. I should have known that. Here directed by the inimitable John R. Bourgeois. youtu.be/OvI2xgxS2Zg

Texas Archaeology Friends: If you've worked much with the Archaeology Division of the Texas Historical Commission over the years, you know the inimitable Bill Pierson. I learned a few days ago that Bill passed away after several years of declining health. More info in ALT. Godspeed, Bill!

LOL.

Here is a gift link to an incredibly well-done Wall Street Journal article on the Trump regime's war on United States citizens. Read every word. I'm sharing three screenshots from it. Here, the statistics—how bad it is. Next, the story of Sidney Lori Reid. 1/3 www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

I've never liked KFC and could probably count the times I've had it in my entire life on one hand.  But I've always liked the story of Harlan Sanders, who made a huge success out of years of false starts and failures. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/this...

1/5 🧵 📣 Casey Means is fundamentally not qualified for Surgeon General. Call your Senator today - Vote NO on her confirmation. 📣 Why? There’s simply too many articles to choose from! Check out 🔗👇 www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Paternal grandfather was a Floridian who was medically disqualified from WWI service, who managed small grocery stores for A&P before opening his own. Invested wisely in property. Maternal GF was a WWI vet originally from Abilene who became an attorney but died young at 32 years old.

Pit bull/kitten status update.

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him: scim.ag/40rlyKN

1943 Life Magazine photo of an unidentified WASP pilot, and Dad’s drawing based on it from 2002.

Accurate.

Good.

Crew members from USCGC MANTA work to recover a navigational buoy that washed ashore near 61st Street in Galveston on June 6, 2009. The buoy had reportedly come adrift during Hurricane Ike several months previously.

Yep. And I expect the Trump administration will default to backing a return of the Pahlavi regime by default simply because they have no plan, and no interest, in investing the time and energy in much-maligned “nation building” that they disdain. New shah, same as the old shah.

1. This republic of suffering by Faust & Mrs Lincoln by Catherine Clinton 2. The full Grimké family story. The German Texans who fled to Mexico rather than fight for slavery & were massacred by Texas condederates. 3. Chicken parm w/ garlic bread from HEB #HATM