Founded 1983: Liberal Mindset; Conservative Morality

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May 2, 2011

Sophocles and the Theatre of War Catharsis

Now that Bin Laden is dead, we can turn the rapt attention of one eye to our future and how we choose to cope with death, loss and drama in a theatre of war. Young men and women are asked to wear the uniform of the United States of America and kill and punish people for pay under our flag. How does that experience affect them? How does knowingly killing strangers influence behavior, thoughts, a sense of self-security and humble future wishes?

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June 21, 2010January 21, 2013

The V Warfighter Comes to the U.S Army

I enjoy watching the new “V” series reincarnated on the ABC television network. The earlier — 1983 version — of “V” on NBC was bloodier, but not quite as interesting. “V” — if you don’t know is a synonym for “Visitor” — which they really aren’t — because Vs are actually aliens waiting to take over planet earth. Vs are more invader than visitor and figuring that out is part of the charm of the show. We know this because a series of “motherships” hover over major cities in the world just waiting to reign down destruction in the inevitable takeover. The bottom of the V-ships are like outdoor advertising. The Vs can communicate directly with us via a giant TV screen that is their warship underbelly.

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April 28, 2010

Deconforming Bombs Melting into Invisibility

Are we nearing the Age of the Bionic Warrior God with the recent news of electrodes that melt in your brain, not in your mouth? The notion that science is able to deconform objects from one state to another is both delightful and alarming.

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January 29, 2010January 21, 2013

Militarized Anthrax and Drum Delivery

The media have trained us to fear Anthrax even though it is a naturally occurring substance found in the soil of any working farm. Militarized Anthrax is not the natural Anthrax you find on a farm. Anthrax that has been militarized means that is has been “ground up” into the tiniest possible spore form for easy transmission in the air via the wind for inhalation into the lungs. Once Anthrax gets inside your body, your chances of survival are not very good. Militarized Anthrax is a silent killer that takes a bit of time to develop in the body as a cause of death, so marking the time and point of infection is more difficult, and that makes Militarized Anthrax an effective, invisible, assassin. Anthrax, and its natural danger to humans, is all around us all the time.