A few years ago I met some great people, and wrote the article below, it seems even more relevant this Memorial Day than it was then. -- DS
Justin Callahan’s life changed forever in one violent instant on a cold, bleak January morning in 2004. The then 21 year-old army sergeant was on routine patrol in Afghanistan when a hockey-puck sized land mine called a PMN2, a Soviet relic from the cold war, detonated a mere yard away. He never even heard the explosion: [Read more…]
I hate commercials, I’d happily pay a premium for every regular TV station for no commercials on any of ’em, and I say that as someone who doesn’t have much disposable income at all right now. The reason TV commercials suck so much is because they’re unavoidable, ads in other venues, not so much: [Read more…]
There’s a reason I moved a thousand miles and took a low paying dead-end job: I used to live in Brevard County, a hop, skip, and jump away from the Kennedy Space Center, I could watch shuttle launches from my yard. Now, that region is devastated by the shuttle’s retirement, cuts to NASA, and the economy: [Read more…]