car·riage re·turnn. the lever or mechanism on a typewriter that would cause the cylinder on which the paper was held (the carriage) to return to the left margin of the page | 7 April 2011 12:23 Photo courtesy the United States Marine Corps. Reused with attribution in compliance with Creative Commons. Consider the following for a moment: You are a military spouse. While your husband/wife is on the other side of the world,you remain behind,raising your children,paying your mortgage or rent,car notes,etc. You Read on… 25 September 2007 11:35 The Washington Post ran a rather lengthy article two days ago which ran under the headline “Missteps in the Bunker”in an attempt to demystify the US Air Force’s apparent misplacement of a few nuclear warheads. Written by Joby Warnick and Walter Pinkus,the gist of the piece is that the Bermuda Triangle descended Read on… 30 October 2006 17:59 In less than 48 hours I will be leaving California (and the Marine Corps) for good,en route with Jo to Chicago and a new life. The next you will see an update here will be some time after I arrive in the Windy City on 05 November. Read on… 23 October 2006 00:00 Sunday night was a time for reflection. My buddy Vinny and I sat down with a bunch of the new guys to watch a Marine Corps boot camp documentary. The documentary was filmed in San Diego roughly at the same time I was there. It follows the training of Read on… 13 October 2006 00:00 This won’t be a thematic post but will instead function as more of an assessment of the progress I’ve been making,not only with this site (which is minimal in the visible sense),but with other facets of my life. I don’t generally talk much about what is going on with me personally,but with Read on… | Objective"So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here -- not under any byline of mine;or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores,race results,and stock market tabulations,there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms." --Hunter S. Thompson |
A Walk Down Memory Lane/Riding the Wave
Sunday night was a time for reflection. My buddy Vinny and I sat down with a bunch of the new guys to watch a Marine Corps boot camp documentary. The documentary was filmed in San Diego roughly at the same time I was there. It follows the training of Read on…