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From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Quiet August Days in Afghanistan

The news from Afghanistan since the election hasn’t been good.  More bombings and general uneasiness.  conditions remind me of the late summer a few years ago when I wrote the following dispatch for a newsletter I had going called “The Kabul Papers”
I haven’t written a “Kabul Papers” for a long time now and it is [...]

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Las Vegas as a Permanent Insanity

What value can there be to yet another article about Las Vegas and in particular the “Strip”?  Thousands of writers have brought their analytic tools to the Present Arms! position and marched along the Strip through the searing light that can dull lasers and the oxygen-less exhaust heat from Hell that roils in from the [...]

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