A Review of Fiasco

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks My rating: 4 of 5 stars Gosh, there's so much to say about this book, I hardly know where to begin! I turned over so many pages to go back and see citations or quotes that I can't possibly list a fourth of them …

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Random

Hi. It's been awhile since I've posted a non-book review here, so I thought I'd write down a few thoughts. My father has been dead three months now. That's still very hard to believe. His gravestone was just put in, so Gretchen and I will be going to Knoxville to view it soon. Last weekend, …

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Things

Just a few things. I'm sorry I haven't updated in awhile. Not too much has been going on for me personally, and I'm in the middle of three very large books, so I haven't been able to write a book review for awhile. However, I'm nearly done with one (finally!), so hopefully a book review …

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A Senator’s Response re Toomey-Manchin

After the Toomey-Manchin amendment was voted down by our elected government officials even though polls showed that it had the support of over 90% of the US population, I emailed Tennessee's US senators, Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker (both Republicans), to express my disdain for their vote. I tried to send messages shaming them into …

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