Queeg, as Captain of USS Caine, is a perfect metaphor for The Caine Mutiny’s climactic typhoon, Halsey’s Typhoon. Though Queeg, like Halsey’s Typhoon, may be considered something of an act of God in that the Navy no more gave birth to Queeg than it conjured up the wind and waves that battered Third Fleet (and consigned nearly eight hundred men to watery graves), in both cases it was a series of errors in judgment–a failure to heed warnings of impending disaster–that placed the ships and men of Third Fleet in the path of Halsey’s Typhoon, and the men of USS Caine in the path of Queeg.
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Military Transition and Mental Health
Flash Post #8 It’s been a while since I posted. The whole “being in law school” thing has a tendency to interfere with my leisure activities (to the extent this could be called such a thing). I had intended to share my thoughts on memorialization and remembrance, the purposes and the pitfalls, with a postContinue reading “Military Transition and Mental Health”
Reactions to a First Case
So for the summer, I’ve been working at a legal aid clinic.
When We Move On
I was going to write about the Navy, and moving on from the Navy, but then I realized I didn’t care anymore. I guess that means, maybe, I really have moved on. So here are some disjointed thoughts about Ayn Rand and objectivism.
Looking Down from the Bridge
There is no “moment.”
The Lingering Dread of TDRL
It’s the stuff we don’t even talk about not talking about.
Songs of Babylon 