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The coronavirus story continues the Dictatorship of COVID-19 worldwide the Faucian version of how humanity is supposed to live with the backdrop of President Trump's diagnosis and treatment now underway. "If we had an honest media" starts this Twitter post..... We'll move forward and consider those from the world of music who have moved on this week. He was one of my friend's favorite singers back in the 1970's and songs like this remind me why my friend loved the music of Mac Davis who passed away this week at the age of 78..... Before we remember the music of...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Curtis LeMay. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. General Curtis LeMay was the Air Force Chief of Staff. As commander of the Strategic Air Command during the crucial post World War II period, LeMay was key in transitioning the Air Force to all-jet inventory. Politically a hard-line Democrat, he ran as George Wallace's running mate in 1968 until Wallace's assassination attempt. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please...

"...I was surprised to find out that LeMay wasn’t at all the man I thought he was … and I didn’t think he got a fair shake in history. Here is a man who has been marginalized and even vilified as this mad bomber yearning for a nuclear exchange with the Soviets. Hollywood helped solidify that negative image with Dr. Strangelove ..and he became a favorite target for journalists beginning in the 1960s. In truth, the real LeMay couldn’t have been further from the crazy brute that he’s been made out to be. He was a sober, strategic realist, who...

Reviewing Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August, The Proud Tower in the Times Literary Supplement recently, Robert Zaretsky noted that one of the ways to assess the aims and success of her 1962 Pulitzer prize–winning book is to consider “its influence on a man whose job it was to respond to present pressures: President Kennedy." Much has been made of the influence The Guns of August had on Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis—and for good reason. Kennedy himself made a point of referring repeatedly to the lessons of Tuchman’s book (which had been published just a few months...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the nation's most notable and highly decorated military leaders - Air Force General Curtis LeMay. Washington, D.C. - infoZine - He greatly influenced bomber tactics during World War II. During the Cold War, he headed up the Berlin Airlift, and then developed the strategic air command into an all-jet nuclear striking force. LeMay's last assignment was as Air Force chief of staff. After retiring, he became the vice presidential running mate for George Wallace's unsuccessful bid for the White House in 1968. Today's Air Force is made up of...

Globalization: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is having a grand time cavorting around the world on his Axis Of Evil tour. But we notice he's disgusting as many countries as he's wooing. Vietnam is the most interesting. Chavez blew into Hanoi on Monday and right away began praising Vietnam's government in exactly the way it didn't want: by hailing communism. "Vietnam, with its valor, defeated imperialism not only on the battlefield, but also has maintained socialism in the ideological arena," the South American dictator intoned. Uh-huh. To Vietnam's officials, who've been trying diligently to integrate their nation into the world economy, that's...