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With all due respect to our nation’s veterans, I’m celebrating Armistice Day

By Mark | November 11, 2015

I don’t dislike the military. I think we, as a nation, spend far too much on it, and I think that we’d ultimately be better served by investing a great deal of that money on education, alternative energy research and any number of other things instead, but, in general, I don’t have an issue with […]

Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1918, Armistice Day, Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, military, military budget, Veterans' Day, war, WWI, WWII | 33 Comments

Putting an “I Support the Troops” magnetic ribbon on your car is one thing, but having wounded vets transported through your neighborhood is quite another

By Mark | July 28, 2011

OK, I may well be overreacting, but I just read an article about some Ann Arbor residents who are up in arms over the temporary use of shuttle busses to transport wounded soldiers through their neighborhood, on their way to and from the VA Hospital, and I feel obligated to fan the flames of outrage. […]