The Latest:
4/8/2024: Flash Post #12 – Two Eclipses, in which I capitalize on the whole “not being in the Navy anymore” thing to take two entirely frivolous adventures to view a pair of eclipses so far from the nearest sea that the locals might just mistake an oar for a winnowing fan. Mostly, it’s just pictures (and a time lapse!).
2/20/2024: Five Reads of The Caine Mutiny – Or: Who Wore it Best?, in which I walk through five different takes on Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny, corresponding to five different stages in my naval career. The bottom line? Greenwald is full of shit (and so is Aaron Sorkin).
2/11/2024: Flash Post #11 – Review: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023), in which the only thing more questionable than my decision to review this film four months after its initial blink-and-you’ll-miss-it streaming release is the director’s decision to rip an earlier (superior) adaptation of Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny from its critically important historical setting, copy/paste it into a contemporary setting with only slipshod and superficial changes to dialogue, and film what is otherwise a shot-for-shot remake.
Featured Blog Posts:
- 9/26/22: Navy Officer Accessions, SARBs, and the Nuke Draft, in which I relate my experiences working in the Officer Accessions Department at USNA.
- 8/14/21: Cowardice in Afghanistan. Some thoughts on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
- 7/4/21: When We Move On. I started writing about the Navy, but then I realized I just didn’t care that much anymore. So instead I wrote about Ayn Rand and Objectivism.
- 2/15/21: They Fought for Their Rights. A historical event serves as my framework for an examination of southern heritage and the legacy of the Confederate States of America.
- Retrospective Part 1 – The “Deployments”, in which I share some pictures, words, and memories about my time stationed aboard a destroyer homeported in Japan, and Retrospective (2 of… ?), in which I must leave Japan for the new and exciting land of… Japan. But this time on an aircraft carrier! But it only gets worse with Retrospective 3 – Working for a Criminal in the Shadow of Fat Leonard. How could things possibly get any worse? Oh, boy… just wait for #4!
Songs of Babylon 