Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. Heh, pull up a bucket, we’re going to be here a bit. The life of a pundit, especially one with my portfolio (Science fiction geek, science nerd, Navy reporter, and libertarian) is not an easy one, and the last couple of weeks are proof. Last week I…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. Lexicon: the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge. In short, “words”. Well, I really hadn’t planned on weighing in Trump’s “go back where you came from and fix it” tweet, but I don’t have a better target for the week, and this seems right…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. Once again, I have a surplus of targets and limited time. First please let us have a moment of silence for the 14 Russian Submariners still on patrol. Their heroism may never come fully to light, the Russian Navy only grudgingly admitted which boat they were on.…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. I’m going to take a break from speaking of the drums of war. Not because I am out of things to discuss, but because the only things new is that Trump didn’t attack, which seems to have infuriated his detractors as much as they were infuriated before at…
My publisher, upon reading my last piece, asked me “A quick question for you sir… do you ever consider or give credence to those who will say incidents like this one are a false flag…. intended to launch the US into a war. Or is that more conspiracy theory stuff?” I typed out my…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. Here, have something a little stronger, because “here we go again”. Back when I was practicing killing a commie for mommy stuff, we had a little thing called the Tanker wars. 1987-1988. It was the first time Iran decided that the gulf was their pond. Well, after…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. Here’s a cuppa, pull up a chair. Back in October of last year, I ran a piece on “chicken-of-the sea”, because China played that particular game with us. In case you don’t remember Chicken-of-the-sea, that’s much like the school game of chicken we used to play,…