Brigadier General Frederick Payne USMC ret., better known as “Fritz,” has slipped the surly bonds of earth at 104 and gone on to Eternal Rest. During two and a half weeks in 1942, from behind the guns of his Grumman F4F Wildcat flying over the Pacific near Guadalcanal, Mr. Payne, a major at the time, downed…
Month: August 2015
No, most cops are not “honorable, valuable public servants”
Daniel Payne writes in The Federalist that We Need Police Reform. He is absolutely correct but he makes the typical and reflexive assumption that the majority of cops are just doing their jobs and are not part of the problem. Wrong. The job of a police officer is to uphold the laws and arrest those…
Behind Enemy Lines
Well, as some of you might guess, J.J. Sefton’s not my real name, though since November of 2008, I feel more and more as if I’m in a prison. I live in Manhattan, my significant other is a professor at a major institution of higher learning and, though I love her with every fibre of my…
What The Hell Is This?
This is the first of what hopefully will become a regular rotation of writers commenting on just about everything, but from a perspective that will become clear very, very quickly. Politics will be in the forefront, mostly because we are political junkies, but booze, food, model building, ethics…you name it, we will have an opinion…