America doesn’t want soldiers.  It wants Warrior Monks.  Sterile, selfless men who can function in the string-theory dimension that exists between Policy, Expectation, and Reality.  America doesn’t get warrior monks.  It gets men. Men aren’t selfless.  Men have needs....

The enemy is smart.  Most of them cannot write their own language, but they know the exact math to kill us.  Men in flip flops, running around with rifles and home-made explosives, blowing the legs out from under our boys. Our boys are mostly just kids, too young to have done anything to...

I have been posting a lot of old material.  Partly because I need to get it back on the site.  Partly because I need stop-gap posts.  I am busy to the point of frantic.  If you don’t work in “this field”, you probably wouldn’t understand. In my off time, I struggle...

1st Order Desire – A simple desire.  The desire for food, comfort, and sex. 2nd Order Desire – A desire about a desire: I desire not to desire food so much, because it will make me fat.  I desire not to desire sex so much, because I will catch VD.  Etc. It was just after dawn....

They arrive every week.  They are stupid and scared, eyes wide and so poorly trained they can barely tell the difference between the position of Parade Rest and the position of Attention.  They wouldn’t know which of the two to stand at if one of my squad leaders didn’t remind...

I have little sympathy for Buddhists.  I warm myself by their personal conflagrations.  I have no sympathy at all for Vegans.  Those arrogant fuckers will all die when the Collapse comes. It won’t be because their nutritional self-restriction is unsustainable.  It will come when they...

(First published at The Spearhead) “Any man who sets foot in a strip club faces a potential moral dilemma: How would I feel about this if it were my daughter? I am cavalier in this regard because I have no desire to be a father.  I can, and have, let a stripper grind my leg until she...

A few months ago Netflix jacked its rates and announced that it was going to do something different.  The public response was immediate.  Everyone cancelled Netflix.  The plan was to create a completely separate service called Qwikster for the home DVD service.  ’Cuz, y’know,...

From time to time I get a comment on the site that is longer than the original piece.  See yesterday’s Occupied Wall Street, on which a man calling himself John left a seven hundred word essay a la Alex Jones.  I am not going to post the actual comment, for the time being, because it...

Holy Fuck, I was wrong. This Wall Street thing is kind of a big deal.  When it started, I was convinced that nothing would come of it.  Weeks later, people keep going and all it took was a few disgruntled cops and some bad internet press.  There have been arrests.  There have been...

Is this really all that anyone has to gripe about Steve Jobs?  That he was kind of a dick and he didn’t give to charity?  Gawker accuses Steve of being a dictator.  He bullied people.  He was authoritarian.  He used child labor. No fucking shit. Look at every product Apple churned...

I live in a world I don’t understand. I had an epiphany.  I suspected that the world had changed.  At what point did things go wrong?  Did the price of milk reach some terrible Event Horizon?  Who is to blame for this? The world had not changed.  I had changed. If you want to see...