John Howard Roark

Ego Tripping With David Brooks

Today we're going to eviscerate an opinion piece in the NYT and wear it like a skin suit. Because we're low-class animals, of course.

Feb 1, 2024 • 

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January 2024

Hyperventilating About Hydroxychloroquine

The devil, as always, is in the details

Jan 31, 2024 • 

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January 2023

Cheap Drones, Expensive Solutions

Modern War Part 2: Just trying to shoot down cheap drones can wreck your budget. And you might still fail to protect their targets.

Jan 1, 2023 • 

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December 2022

Wars Use Lots of Shells

In modern war - a real war, not an American overseas adventure war - basic things like artillery shells matter. And their consumption can tell us a lot…

Dec 28, 2022 • 

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No Easy Way Out

Lack of accountability for their actions has allowed western leaders to send the Ukrainian people down a path with a disastrous end point. For the…

Dec 24, 2022 • 

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War and Propaganda

A series of articles about the ongoing war in Ukraine and the propaganda that passes for war reporting today.

Dec 13, 2022 • 

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The Pentagon's New Toy

Everything about the new B-21 bomber is secret, including how much it costs, what it does, why we need it...

Dec 8, 2022 • 

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"Assault Weapons" Part 2: Ballistic Protection

How "bullet proof" is a bullet proof vest? What does this have to do with rifles like the AR-15?

Dec 1, 2022 • 

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"Assault Weapons" Part 1: Definitions

Politicians came up with a scary sounding name for a common thing that they want to ban. Are we at all surprised?

Dec 1, 2022 • 

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November 2022

Propagarbage

Because incompetence is now a job requirement in modern reporting.

Nov 26, 2022 • 

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Rescuer

The Fog of War, Part 3: The Ukrainians obliterated a rescue tugboat with a pair of American Harpoon missiles. But that's okay - our super reliable media…

Nov 15, 2022 • 

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Moskva

The Fog of War, Part 2: The sinking of the Moskva is an example of how difficult it is to determine actual events during a war. Also, some journalists…

Nov 12, 2022 • 

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