As in, there should be a *hard* liberal arts curriculum that makes you sweat and is as hard as any other rigorous degree. Learn how to critique an unreliable source, how to do First Order Logic, a second or third language, how to (rigorously!) write in a variety of formats (not just essays),...

Dort has broken NATSEC Bluesky containment

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

I too would like my boss’s wife to prepare the honeymoon suite

Books Read that Blur the line between Work and Enjoyment: 7 James Ellroy, The Big Nowhere Richard Stark, The Hunter Richard Stark, The Man with the Getaway Face George V Higgins, Cogan’s Trade Joseph Wambaugh, The Glitter Dome Michael Connelly, The Closers Mixhael Connelly, The Black Box

Books Read for Professional Development: 24 Cold Case Homicide Investigation Fire Investigator, Principles and Practice The Path of Flames The Arsonist Profiles Death Investigators Handbook Bob Keppel, Serial Violence David Lester, Serial Killers, The Insatiable Passion

Books read for enjoyment this year: 33 Aeschylus, The Orestia Sophocles, Three Theban Plays Virgil, The Anead Horace, Odes Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Saint Augustine, Confessions Multiple, The Anglo Saxon World Anon, The Anglo Saxon Chronicles Anon, Beowulf

When I die I'm gonna have the funeral director mount my head on a stick and at my memorial if you want to say any words about me, you have to hold the head stick.

And apparently unlike DoD and legal authorizations to use force from the Congress or otherwise, the CIA doesn't fuck around with the i's being dotted and t's crossed on a finding because they have a long institutional memory of how they ultimately got burned the last time they played fast and loose

This is what they took from us.

I thought SAD was some totally made up thing until I spent 20 years in the South, and then moved to the PNW.

You're just going about your day when your stapler starts telling you how nice it would feel to staple your mouth shut. Your coffee cup chimes in, giggling with the voice of a breathless girl, that it would be so sexy if you added bleach to your coffee next time. Your excel app sieg heils, twice

Hey, I resemble this

UPDATE: grandpa also sometimes burns a covert action

I think losing your voting rights is a pretty mild punishment for refusing to defend your homeland and kin against a barbaric invasion.

Being married is like losing at a board game you don’t even know you’re playing.

It was a Sunday tradition. Catholic Mass at St Seamus the Distiller, a medium regular at Dunks, then riding the T and jacking it all day. Now the woke mob wants to take it all away

This has not changed since the legions. An average Roman infantrymen marched approximately 20 miles per day, carrying 60-80 pounds of arms, equipment and supplies, and was expected to construct a fortification at the end of each day.

Contributor: Photos of the dirty 1970s will make you appreciate the EPA

TBF they also had, like, the world’s best granola bars.

Sauron's security was defeated by two hobbits, who entered undetected through an unlocked backdoor, armed only with two swords and a flashlight

When a resistance group has the support of the local population and an outside power, they are undefeatable- COL Aaron Bank

Tips to make it through winter: - weather proof your top hats & fanciful wigs - summon a minor fire demon and bind it in a locket - wander the trackless moors and howl into the Void to stay warm - embrace the cold darkness

Years ago, I was hunting in middle of nowhere Arizona borderlands. I got up at 2am to take a leak, and when I got up out of my tent, I felt like I stepped into the universe.

One of my very few woo woo beliefs is that humans need to be able to see the night sky at least periodically to function properly and my evidence is that if I don’t go somewhere with dark skies at least every 4 months, I get really irritable and sad.

I was lucky enough to have an opportunity to work in the middle of nowhere in the Mojave desert a few years ago, and at 3 o'clock in the morning and bitterly cold, if you take the time to look up the sky will stop you in your tracks. It's just stunning.

My current reads

Tonight I’m starting Chrétien De Troyes “Arthurian Romances”

Do whatever manual outdoor task without machines that you are able.Saves gym money

Spend the money for a good safety razor. Blades are cheap and give a better shave than a cartridge razor. Also, buy the good shave soap. Mid-tier liquor makes a vastly better cocktail than budget garbage. Buy nice candles. Light them once in a while. Get good boots.

Invest in goods shoes and boots, ones that are re-soleable. Your feet and legs will thank you. “Fresh frozen” vegetables are nutritionally identical to fresh fresh. These are great if you feel like fresh veg goes bad before you can use it. The health of your mind is like the health of your body-

The US population following the sinking of a carrier:

Oh, my sweet summer child.

If we stopped promoting conformity, public education that stifles creativity, and lionizing those that simply regurgitate or exploit the innovation of others, the idea machine would be just fine.

“This is Hillsboro, Oregon, in the year 2025. For Shirley and Jasmine, and the people they serve, it’s an era of code names, secretive deliveries, encrypted messages, and concerns about government surveillance.” From Alejandro Figueroa & @hbarth.bsky.social:

Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is the complete and utter collapse of the entire AI industry, to include the fortunes of those involved in it Please and thank you Because I’d like there to be some semblance of a world left for my niece and nephews in

Hoverboards are the future, segways are the future, betamax, laser disc, Google glass is the future, 3d tvs are the future, curved screens are the future. Like do we have to traipse through the whole graveyard of tech to get these people to understand just becauae you say it doesn't make it true.

@tmfloressb.bsky.social Facks.

Marcus Aurelius

Dad, way back when: "Just remember, the military can't love you back, but it can definitely fuck you."

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, FORTY BELOW, SNOOPY WENT UP IN SEARCH OF HIS FOE

it’s giving

When tech worked for people

Santa flew over Kandahar in Afghanistan in 2014, which is a War on Terror relic that should be preserved forever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZSz...

“Love is the final purpose of world history — the unum of the universe.” — Novalis, General Draft