Sometimes I Get Hepped Up and Think I Know a Thing or Two

  • Fishing

    When my father started his naval career, a college graduate in the officer’s program, he made $8,280 per year.  Adjusted for inflation, that amount would equal $32,706 today. First year college graduate naval…

  • Careful What You Wish For . . .

    The back pain has settled into a dull, constant ache.  So maybe I preferred the ache-free, sucker-punch-at-any-minute stage more.  I don’t know.  The dull ache sucks.  But it’s an ache that aches in…

  • Initial Thoughts

    Both the liberal and the conservative reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden are irritating me.  We are irreconcilably divided in this country, and it’s never more obvious than taking a gander…