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About me
I'm a political moderate and belong to no political party. In fact, I consider such parties detrimental to the proper exercise of democracy: they devolve to insider groups, resistant to change and devoted above all else to their self-preservation. I pay attention to experts but with a skeptical ear. I strive to be kind, honest, and even-handed, but I can be harsh with trolls and partisans of all stripes, so don't be mean. That's about all you need to know about me. Have a nice day.

My Material
Wikimedia Uploads End Around (submarine tactic)

Not-So-Crappy News (for "those days")
Good News Network Happy News The Optimist Daily Huffington Post Good News Section

Law
"It cannot be presumed that any clause in the constitution is intended to be without effect; and, therefore, such a construction is inadmissible, unless the words require it." - Marbury v Madison (1803) Text of the US Constitution Farmer-brewery licenses A comprehensive discussion of "military necessity"

Media Bias
What drives media slant? Detecting Bias in the Media (poster) Detecting Bias in the News Websites for Fact Checking

e-books
GPO eBook Gutenberg eBooks IRS eBooks

National Archives eBooks NCBI/NIH eBooks NASA eBook Archive

Open Textbooks - UMN Libretexts open access library Pressbooks@MSL -- Michael Schwartz Library

Government Data Sources
Data and Statistics about the U.S. The home of the U.S. Government’s open data U.S. Census Bureau
 * US Median Income in 2019
 * Infographics & Visualizations

Philosophy & Logic
List of Fallacies Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Quotes from Adam Smith on Capitalism Kekulé's dreams about the structure of benzine

Science
Beall's List of Potentially-Predatory Journals & Publishers Eliza, the Rogerian Therapist The Game of Life computer simulation (not the board game) The Rules for The Game of Life For a space that is 'populated': * Each cell with one or no neighbors dies, as if by solitude. * Each cell with four or more neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation. * Each cell with two or three neighbors survives. For a space that is 'empty' or 'unpopulated' * Each cell with three neighbors becomes populated. Nuclear Weapons Effects in Space An interesting hypothetical exercise that might surprise some. Nukemap: atomic weapon effect calculator 7 Lessons in Survivorship bias 'Diagoras, who is called the atheist, being at Samothrace, one of his friends showed him several pictures of people who had endured very dangerous storms; "See," says he, "you who deny a providence, how many have been saved by their prayers to the Gods." "Ay," says Diagoras, "I see those who were saved, but where are those painted who were shipwrecked?" ' Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods

Health and Medicine
Schairer and Schöniger's forgotten tobacco epidemiology and the Nazi quest for racial purity NIH A&P USDA FoodData Central [https://www.wineanorak.com/subjectivity.htm Wine tasting: subjective or objective? Exploring the nature of wine perception]

COVID-19
Social distancing strategies for curbing the COVID-19 epidemic Don’t drink bleach: Texas Poison Center Network getting 100s of calls about ingesting cleaning products

CDC COVID Data Tracker: Maps, charts, and data The COVID Tracking Project Daily Recount, 26 Mar 2020. CDC: Late Sequelae of COVID-19 Persistent Symptoms in Patients After Acute COVID-19 Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome

CDC: 2009 H1N1 Pandemic (H1N1pdm09 virus)

Environment and Climate
Baotou is the world’s biggest supplier of rare earth minerals and it’s hell on Earth Interagency Sea Level Rise Scenario Tool

Fermentation
Methanol contamination in traditionally fermented alcoholic beverages: the microbial dimension

Energy
Spin-out turns urine into electricity Urine-powered energy generation High-Performance Piezoelectric EnergyHarvesters and Their Applications Fail-Safe Nuclear Power Are these tiny, 'inherently safe' nuclear reactors the path to a carbon-free future? Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way

Evolution and Abiogenesis
Understanding Evolution Evidence for Evolution - O'Neil Evidence for Evolution - NECSI Evidence for Evolution - Khan Academy The origin of life: what we know, what we can know and what we will never know

Space Agencies & Educational Groups
California Academy of Sciences ESA NASA NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive NOAA

Space & Spaceflight

 * Biography of Sergei Korolev
 * Biography Werner von Braun
 * Wernher von Braun and the Nazis - American Experience
 * Kennedy Space Center's History of Spaceflight
 * IEEE Spectrum spaceflight news
 * Spaceflight Revolution (1994)
 * Huffington Post spaceflight news

Astronomy
"I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy." - Stephen Hawking

The Sky Tonight
timeanddate.com skyandtelescope.com earthsky.com space.com astronomy.com Night Sky Planner (JPL)

Amateur Astronomy info
"One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away." - Sandra Faber
 * Light pollution map
 * UMich guide to Naked-eye astronomy
 * Cliff's Notes Naked-eye astronomy chapter
 * Binocular astronomy tips
 * How to choose binoculars for stargazing
 * Binoculars for Astronomy: Ultimate Guide to Selecting and Buying

Astronomy Groups
"Like many astronomers who use the great telescopes on Mauna Kea, I have participated personally and joyfully in ceremonies to celebrate the profound cosmic understanding that comes from joining ancient Hawaiian navigator traditions with the techniques of modern astronomy." - Sandra Faber
 * Night Sky Network: groups and activities
 * Aldrich Astronomical Society, Paxton, MA
 * New Hampshire Astronomical Society, Plymouth NH
 * Skylight Astronomical Society, Stow, MA

Astronomy Learning Activities

 * Star deck guide to the constellations This page has links to downloadable sets of constellation maps and a user guide.
 * Space Place: Learning activites for kids
 * NASA Science links
 * NASA planetary science
 * Calif. Academy of Sciences - Lesson plans
 * Imagine the Universe! Lesson plans, grades 6-12
 * Imagine the Universe! Cosmic Distance Scale
 * NASA solar system guide
 * Solar system facts: planets, dwarf planets, Sun, Moon, comets, asteroids, asteroid belt
 * Constellation guide, individual constellation maps
 * UWisc constellation guide, maps, misc. astronomy info
 * Black hole primer
 * Black hole primer

Astronomy Photos
"It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other." - Plato
 * Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
 * Photojournal: NASA Image Access
 * NASA Visible Earth Images
 * Hubble Space Telescope
 * Spitzer Space Telescope
 * Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Writing & Grammar
"Good writing is like a windowpane." - George Orwell Writing Task OWL Resource List "Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." Mark Twain OWL: APA Style Guide OWL: MLA Style Guide OWL: Style Manual Glossary "There is creative reading as well as creative writing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson OWL: Literary terms OWL FAQs OWL: Grammar OWL: Visual rhetoric "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." - Robert Frost OWL: Mechanics OWL: Punctuation OWL: Structuralism & Semiotics "I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money." - Paulo Coelho

Propaganda
"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it." Joseph Goebbels Propaganda (Brittanica.com) The Story of Propaganda (American Historical Association WWII American propaganda leaflet in Japanese (East Carolina University) The Information War in the Pacific, 1945 (CIA) World War II Propaganda (PBS) Propaganda (1952 U.S. government publication) WWII German manual on resisting Allied propaganda “The greater the lie, the more effective it is as a weapon.” Adolf Hitler

Satire
"If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up." Barry Humphries Chinese Newspaper Publishes Bogus Story From The Onion as Real Deal Maybe you know that article is satire, but a lot of people can’t tell the difference

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Devin Nunes' Cow NOTE: Congressman Devin Nunes, a co-sponsor of the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act, has filed lawsuits asking for over $250,000,000 in damages against people who made fun of him. How sad. "A Modest Proposal" by Johnathan Swift (1729) Former Republican Who Doctored Presidential Seal Is Happy Trump Stood In Front Of It
 * https://www.theonion.com
 * https://www.thedailymash.co.uk
 * https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report

Discussion
How to Use Satire in Literature, Pop Culture, and Politics Literary Devices, Terms, and Elements: Satire The Purpose and Method of Satire

Compilations
Huffington Post's satire links Kent State's List of Satirical News Sites NPR stories tagged as satire Time: satirical stories

BLM Protests, Summer 2020
Demonstrations & Political Violence in America, Summer 2020 93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful, New Report Finds (Sept 2020) AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest Rightwing extremists responsible for 67% of domestic terror attacks and plots so far this year, with at least half of that violence targeting protesters, according to a new analysis from a centrist thinktank.

January 6, 2021 Riot
Donald Trump's January 6, 2021 speech Trump was more upset that Capitol mob looked ‘low class’ than about violent attacks Paul Gosar assured Jan. 6 protest organizers they would get a 'blanket pardon' while they were planning rallies

Alternative views of January 6th
Fox News Texts Don't Match the Network's Coverage GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde defends 'normal tourist visit' comparison for Jan. 6 Sen. Ron Johnson calls Capitol insurrection a 'peaceful protest'

Legal News
Capitol Breach Cases (DOJ) Conspiracy Indictment of Elmer Stuart Rhodes III and other Oath Keepers Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes convicted of seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 trial Trump, Two Rioters Sued over Brian Sicknick's Death

Polling
Premarital Sex Nearly Universal Among Americans, and Has Been for Decades 65% of Americans Think They Are More Intelligent Than Average Poll: Majority of Republicans say Trump better president than Lincoln
 * Balletopedia
 * 538.com
 * Gallup
 * Marist
 * Pew Research Center
 * Rasmussen Reports Approval Histories: TrumpObama
 * Reuters

Death Penalty
Death Penalty Information Center NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia.

Gun Violence
Gun Violence in Europe (2020) Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Child and Teen Firearm Mortality in the U.S. and Peer Countries (KFF) Relative Lethality of Suicide Methods

Pandemic Info
[https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/07/experts-knew-pandemic-was-coming-what-they-fear-next-238686 Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next.] Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic (NBER) Fauci: 'It would be nice' if Trump hadn't scrapped the NSC's global-health unit Trump conference on COVID-19

Nuclear Weapon Issues
The Full Costs of Ballistic Missile Defense It’s time to get US nukes out of Turkey Urgent: Move US Nuclear Weapons Out Of Turkey JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal) summary

Elections, Voting Rights, Voting Impediments
Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data Voter Caging and Purging House Members Who Signed a Brief Asking the Supreme Court to Consider Overturning the Election

Policing Issues
Deaths in police custody in the United States: Research review Boston Police Commissioner Gross: Officers ‘Wear Too Many Hats,’ Duties Should Be Shared

Barack Obama
Obama's Final Numbers [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama's reign]

Donald Trump and the GOP
GOP Senator Mike Lee says "Of Course We're not a Democracy Why the Republicans’ anti-democracy turn has become normalised Republican leaders denounce Trump's dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes (Nov 2022)

'There is a battle going on for the soul of the Republican Party' Kellyanne Conway: Press Secretary Sean Spicer Gave 'Alternative Facts' (22 January 2017) (I was tempted to put this under but the satire is unintentional.) In Helsinki, Trump Appeared To Side With Russia Over U.S. Intelligence Community ‘Major Disarmament’ Expected in North Korea Within Trump’s First Term, Pompeo Says Record U.S. trade deficit in 2018 reflects failure of Trump’s trade policies In His Own Words: The President's Attacks on the Courts After 2 Years, Trump Tax Cuts Have Failed To Deliver On GOP's Promises [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-trump-says-apos-192428325.html?ncid=facebook_yfsocialfa_wje3x23a50w&utm_content=buffer39b26&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=yahoofinance Trump says he 'obviously' never said Mexico would pay directly for the wall. But he did] Some of Trump’s Most Devious Lies Are About Health Care White House removes military family support page from official site (updated 21 Jan 2020) Video of a rambling Trump rant Trump's air strikes in Afghanistan dramatically increased civilian deaths: Report

Trump Family Business
Trump Litigation Tracker Why U.S. Law Makes It Easy for Donald Trump To Stiff Contractors A Look At The Ethical Conflicts Trump's Children Have Faced (Oct 2019) Eric Trump’s false claim that the Trump family ‘got out of all international business’ (Oct 2019) China grants 18 trademarks in 2 months to Trump, daughter (Nov 2018) Ivanka Trump’s Brand Received Five New Trademarks From China This Month (Jan 2019) Foreign officials spent more than $750,000 at Trump's D.C. hotel, new documents show Military has spent nearly $200,000 at Trump’s Scottish resort since 2017

Ukrainegate
As Sondland testified, a misleading Ukraine story spread among conservatives on social media No, Ukraine didn’t indict Burisma on Wednesday Fiona Hill clashes with GOP over ‘fictional’ Ukraine claims Nunes dodges questions about allegations he sought dirt on Biden from Ukraine Barr Accuses Democrats Of Trying To 'Cripple' The Trump Administration's Power Barr’s handpicked prosecutor tells inspector general he can’t back right-wing theory that Russia case was U.S. intelligence setup

Left/Right Groups
Green Party: Green New Deal "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" Henry David Thoreau Federation_for_American_Immigration_Reform The Epoch Times, a Falun Gong news outlet
 * IRLI "IRLI is a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative effects of mass migration." Linked to FAIR (below)
 * FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform)

Racism, Supremacist Groups, & Domestic Terrorism
The FBI's Terrorism page The Organizational Dynamics of Far‐Right Hate Groups in the United States A 2011 DHS report on right-wing extremism. The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States From Debate Stage, Trump Declines To Denounce White Supremacy

Member Of "Boogaloo Bois" Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Provide Material Support To Hamas Member Of “Boogaloo Bois” Charged With Riot Washington Legislator Matt Shea Accused Of 'Domestic Terrorism,' Report Finds

Christian Activist: When They Attack White Supremacy, They Attack Christianity Alt Right: A Primer about the New White Supremacy ADL: A Dark and Constant Rage: 25 Years of Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States The full ADL report is here

Black men arrested at Philadelphia Starbucks feared for their lives 13 MLK statues beheaded, broken or stolen

Other
State laws on recording conversations ExxonMobil Climate change documents Home Ownership in the USA AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states Federal Anti-Poverty Programs Primarily Help the GOP's Base The Lessons of the Afghanistan Papers A Legacy Of Torture Is Preventing Trials At Guantánamo The 'Afghanistan Papers' Confirm Critics' Worst Fears About America's Longest War Global Warming Graphs Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation Anti-abortion radical admits to bestiality

Child Trafficking and Abuse
National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1 (888) 373-7888 SMS: 233733 (Text "HELP" or "INFO")

The U.S. Justice Department Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS). Save the Children child trafficking awareness UNICEF child trafficking protection Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)

News
AP News stories on child trafficking Almost half of identified cases of child trafficking begin with some family member involvement [https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/nation-now/2018/01/30/sex-trafficking-column/1073459001/ Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men.] Tim Nolan (politician) Ralph Shortey [https://www.inc.com/magazine/201707/burt-helm/how-i-did-it-james-alefantis-comet-ping-pong.html Pizzagate Nearly Destroyed My Restaurant. Then My Customers Helped Me Fight Back]

Religious Groups & Child Abuse
The Religious Sex Abuse Epidemic - Oct. 18, 2011 Child sexual abuse and the [Southern Baptist church: How widespread is the problem?] - Aug. 22, 2018 Buffalo [Catholic Bishop Resigns Amid Mounting Controversy Over Clergy Abuse] - Dec. 4, 2019 Montana Jehovah's Witness sex abuse case underscores church's worldwide reckoning - Sept. 30, 2018 The Ultra-Orthodox [Hasidic Jewish Community's Sex Abuse Crisis Has Finally Reached a Tipping Point] - Sept. 24, 2019 MormonLeaks: Leaked document sheds light on LDS Church's handling of 7 sex abuse cases - Sept. 11, 2018

Religion... and not
Applying God’s Law: Religious Courts and Mediation in the U.S. Some Reasons Why Humanists Reject The Bible The Flat-Earth Bible Skeptic's Annotated Bible Biblical Contradictions Wiccan (Witches) Rede New Apostolic Reformation

Three in Ten US Adults Now Religiously Unaffiliated

On Ethics
Ethics vs. Morals The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect A 1967 discussion of the unintended effects of allowing or preventing abortion. A Framework for Making Ethical Decisions Ethical Lenses Teaching and Maintaining Ethical Behavior in a Professional Organization Rethinking Ethics in Law Enforcement

"Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth. The argument for intelligent design may have some appeal for many Christians but is ultimately a negation of what science is about, which is to make a hypotheses from what is observable and then conduct experiments in a constant process of testing." George Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton, former Archbishop of Canterbury

Groups
Patheos Sojourners Church and State

Prosperity Theology
What you should know about the prosperity gospel Prosperity Gospel - Christianity Today

Eschatology & "The End Times"
What the Bible Says Will Happen in End Times 2022: [https://www.timesofisrael.com/apocalypse-now-to-some-evangelicals-ukraine-invasion-spells-the-end-of-days/ Apocalypse now? To some evangelicals, Ukraine invasion spells the end of days] 2018: Trump Will Start the End of the World, Claim Evangelicals Who Support Him

News Items
Has Trump caused white Evangelicals to change their tune on morality? [https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/21/trump-values-voter-wing-gop-00093175 Trump killed the ‘values voter’ wing of the GOP. It isn’t coming back in 2024.] Global Evidence of Extreme Intuitive Moral Prejudice Against Atheists 22 Evangelical Scandals The Story of Marjoe (Gortner, child evangelist) After 350 Years, Vatican Says Galileo Was Right: It Moves (1992) Former Archbishop of Canterbury: atheists use 9/11 as excuse to attack all religions

General History
"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous." - Thomas Merton DNA: Genotypes and Phenotypes (Smithsonian) The Revolutions of 1848 in Germany, Italy, and France The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States Five states' reasons for secession prior to the American Civil War. "Slave" appears 83 times, including variants such as "slavery" (38 times), "slave-holding," and "non-slave-holding" (21 times) in these documents. This statistic is a pretty good indication of what the main issue was after the 1860 election. No, the Democratic Party didn’t create the Ku Klux Klan Exploration of the Canyons of the Colorado by J. W. Powell (1895) History and Adjudication of the Common Lands of Spanish and Mexican Land Grants Challenges to the Confidentiality of U.S. Federal Statistics, 1910 – 1965 Military Developments of WWI Spanish Flu Invades Massachusetts Why the Controversy Over a Black Actress Playing Anne Boleyn Is Unnecessary and Harmful Long before Jodie Turner-Smith’s miniseries came under criticism, British Indian actress Merle Oberon portrayed the Tudor queen The FBI and the American Gangster, 1924-1938 German Tiger Battalions on the Eastern and Western Fronts, 1942-1945 FDR Library Catastrophe on the Yalu: America’s intelligence failure in Korea
 * FDR's "Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." promise Oct. 30, 1940

My Lai
The My Lai Massacre My Lai Pilot Hugh Thompson's Obituary After Pinkville, Noam Chomsky "They’re young, they’re idealistic and don’t like man’s inhumanity to man. As they get older they will become wiser and more tolerant." - Colonel Joseph Bellas, commanding officer of a hospital in Vietnam where soldiers boycotted Thanksgiving dinner in protest against the war. ‘I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer’ “It is time we recognized that [in Vietnam] ours, in truth, was a noble cause. We dishonor the memory of 50,000 young Americans who died in that cause when we give way to feelings of guilt.” - Ronald Reagan, 18 August 1980

Racism
Lee Atwater's "Southern Strategy" interview (Beware, ye weak of heart! It gets ugly.) - An audio recording of the Atwater interview. "The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites." - Malcolm X

Military (and Not-So-Military) References
"We have gotten into the fashion of talking of cavalry tactics, artillery tactics, and infantry tactics. This distinction is nothing but mere abstraction. There is but one art, and that is the tactics of the combined arms. The tactics of a body of mounted troops composed of the three arms is subject to the same established principles as is that of a mixed force in which foot soldiers bulk largely. The only difference is one of mobility." - Major Gerald Gilbert, British Army, 1907

Oryxspioenkop

 * Russian Equipment Losses, 2022-2025 invasion of Ukraine
 * Ukrainian Equipment Losses, 2022-2025 invasion of Ukraine

Brookings

 * Loitering Munitions

CIA Library

 * CIA World Factbook
 * Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) Publications
 * The Development of a British-American Concept of Special Operations in WWII Burma

US National Archives

 * Marbury v. Madison
 * Ellis Zacharias, US Naval Intelligence Officer, commander in WWII

Library of Congress

 * US Strategic Bombing Survey (WWII)
 * Herblock's History - Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium
 * Cartoon America
 * Bill Mauldin: Beyond Willie and Joe

RAF History
A Brief History of the Torpedo, Part 1 A Brief History of the Torpedo, Part 2 The U.S. Naval Institute, a non-official non-profit membership association [http://www.combinedfleet.com/pearlops.htm Invasion: Pearl Harbor! (A well-done debunking of "Japanese could have invaded Hawaii in WWII" theories)]
 * America's Undersea War on Shipping
 * How the Japanese Achieved Surprise at Pearl Harbor
 * The Coming Carrier Identity Crisis

Royal Navy History
"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public." Winston Churchill Britain's Struggle to Build Effective Tanks during the Second World War (Imperial War Museum) People’s War, People’s Army by Võ Nguyên Giáp Arms Control Association: Who Has Nukes? "There is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours." John F. Kennedy Canadian Nautical Research Society
 * Midway to Understanding: Seventy Years of History?
 * Britain and the Delay in Closing the Mid-Atlantic "Air Gap" During the Battle of the Atlantic

Defense Technical Information Center
HyperWar: primarily official documents produced by the U.S., U.K. and British Commonwealth governments.
 * Task Force Butler: A Case Study in the Employment of an Ad Hoc Unit in Combat Operations, During Operation Dragoon, 1-30 August 1944
 * Turning Point: A History of German Petroleum Production in WWII & Its Lessons for the Role of Oil in Modern Air Warfare
 * Handbook on Japanese Military Forces: 1944 US military technical manual
 * Japan's Battle of Okinawa
 * WWII research into camouflage methods including paints and Yehudi lights (tends to be very technical)
 * Mitchells Over The Pacific: The Dynamics Of B-25 Innovation Development of the B-25 from a high- and medium-altitude level bomber to low-altitude bomber, strafer, and ground attack plane. Contains mini-bios of Gen. George Kenney and Lt. Col. P.I. "Pappy" Gunn.
 * 76mm GUN M1A1 & M1A2: An Analysis of U.S. Anti-Tank Capabilities During WW II
 * How Southwest Pacific Area Operations in WWII Influenced the Royal Australian Air Force
 * Torpedoes and Their Impact on Naval Warfare
 * Operation Starvation (mining of Japanese waters, 1945
 * Within Limits: The U.S. Air Force and the Korean War
 * The Fall of the Philippines (1942)
 * Bougainville and the Northern Solomons

Fort Benning Armor Center

 * Tank Platoon
 * Armor and Mechanized Infantry Company Team
 * Defeating the Russian Battalion Tactical Group

Naval databases
US Naval Abbreviations (Also see 'CINCPAC list of abbreviations & short titles' below.) Naval History Information Center The finest online naval history information (if they do say so themselves). Navypedia NavSource Naval History - Photographic History Of The U.S. Navy

1941 Army-Navy Football Program

US Military Sources
"God protects fools, drunkards, and the United States of America" Otto von Bismarck Air Force Historical Support Division "Wars are not paid for in wartime: the bill comes later." Benjamin Franklin US Army Center of Military History "I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell." Gen. Joseph Stilwell

National Museum of the United States Army West Point maps and atlases
 * Philippine Islands (1941-42 Campaign)
 * Burma 1942
 * Guarding the United States and Its Outposts

Naval History and Heritage Command (USN)
 * Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2016
 * CINCPAC list of abbreviations & short titles
 * U.S. Naval Aviation Squadron Lineage
 * Torpedo vs Torpedo (A report on US and Japanese WWII torpedoes.)
 * Battle of the Atlantic—Cont. The Establishment of 10th Fleet & Focus on Antisubmarine Warfare
 * German U-Boat Casualties in World War Two
 * Japanese Submarine Casualties in World War Two (I and RO Boats)
 * Japanese Naval and Merchant Shipping Losses During World War II by All Causes
 * Early Raids in the Pacific Ocean, February 1 to March 10, 1942
 * Japanese Story of the Battle of Midway (A translation of V. Adm. Nagumo's report)
 * Japan's Struggle to End the War from The United States Strategic Bombing Survey
 * History and Specifications of the Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer
 * Naval History and Heritage Command, National Naval Aviation Museum, Aircraft on Display

"The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly." - Emperor Hirohito, April 29, 1942, a few days after the Doolittle Raid

US Naval War College Digital Commons USMC Archives "War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 * The Development of the Angled-Deck Aircraft Carrier—Innovation and Adaptation

Household Hints
How To: Remove Sticky Residue From Surfaces (Big And Small)

Logic, I guess
Russell's teapot An analogy to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims. “And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” Bertrand Russell

The result of not paying attention
Photo of bear attack victim''' WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGE! '''

Blogs
The Consul's Files

Mina Chang
Business Insider: Trump official with dubious résumé appears to have even skipped a 6-day leadership seminar

The below biography no longer exists on the State Department website (as of Nov 19, 2019) and is included for historical purposes. From https://www.state.gov/biographies/mina-chang/ as of 14 Nov. 2019, 4:30 AM Eastern time. Ms. Mina Chang serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO).

Prior to joining the Bureau, DAS Chang served as the Chief Executive Officer of an INGO. Applying insights gleaned from a broad range of civilian and military data sets, data analytics, social science and geo-spatial intelligence capabilities to identify and assist vulnerable communities, the organization worked to isolate root drivers of instability, and direct development initiatives to address critical vulnerabilities that non-state actors exploit to further their agenda.

She has extensive on the ground experience in conflict areas such as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, and the Philippines. She has been an advocate for proactive stabilization as a strategic tool of foreign engagement and an investment in a stronger America abroad.

Mina is an alumna of the Harvard Business School, a graduate of the United States Army War College National Security Seminar, a Harvard John F. Kennedy Senior Executive in National and International Security and a former International Security Fellow at New America. Ms. Chang has been published in CNN, Fortune, Foreign Policy Journal, Forbes, Defense One and The Hill, writing on issues of policy, humanitarian aid, development, the application of emerging technologies and data science capabilities by the sector and its role in the context of national security and global stability. She has addressed the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, as well as the United Nations, and served as a Fellow with the Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations at United States Military Academy at West Point, assisting in the development of academic programs tied to humanitarian and disaster response.

Served as Civil-Military UN-CMCoord Advisor contributing to the current Common Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Standards. Appointed by the United Nations to serve on the Expert Panel for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Humanitarian Response.