Recent content by Tidewater

I still remember the day he almost ruined A-Day. With the "two hand touch for QBs" rule, Anderson had so many sacks they almost could not play the game.

Congress had struck a medal for Washington thanking him for the American victory at Boston. 250 years ago today, Washington wrote a thank you letter to John Hncock. "It will ever be my highest ambition to approve myself a faithful servant of the public ; and that to be in any degree...

The Stallions should have lost week 1, but won. They probably should have won week 2, but lost. Week 3 they got it together: they should have lost (2 pics and soft defense) and they did lose. 1-2 on the season now.

Ralph Northam's Lt Gov. Seen as a rising star at one point. No indication such a thing was possible, except that Spanberger did not seek him to run as Lt Gov again, and Fairfax might know the lay of the land better than her and maybe could have hlped her, but that may be reading too much into...

Just to keep things going.

250 years ago today, Washington is trying to get the lay of the land and bracing the army for the expected British descent on New York. To John Hancock, he writes: "I have not had time, since I came, to look fully about me; but find many works of defence begun.and some finished. The troops are...

And here we go ...

250 years ago today, Washington writes to Commodore Esak Hopkins that three ships, HMS Asia, Phoenix, and Savage, which had been hovering about New York, were headed to Providence to blockade Hopkins' squadron of Continental ships. Hopkins had just returned from a raid on the Bahamas, in which...

That's a great way point on the journey to a job as a lion tamer.

Gosh, what a family of overachievres. Hat tip.

I thought he was in a B-24. I'm probably misremembering that, though.

250 Years ago today, Washington entered Manhattan. New York City and environs will now become the main scene of the fighting.

A documentary about a B-17 crew is to be released this spring. Here is the trailer and teaser trailer: Looks like archival footage and interviews with survivors. This looks pretty good.

Having created it, leaving it in control of the scum now running it would be unwise. I would rather they adopted a measure of voting based on what share of the budget each member state provides the UN. If Country X provides 25% of the funding, they get 25% of the votes in the GA & UNSCR. If...

I believe part of the scientific method is (or should be) healthy skepticism. As I have related the ancient Vulcan proverb, "Challenge your assumptions or they will challenge you." There needs to be a bit of humility in scientific inquiry. As we saw during Covid, too many accepted as Gospel...