9/11: Eight Years Later – 10:03AM
At this moment, eight years ago, United Airlines Flight 93 with 44 people aboard crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers attempted to overpower the hijackers …
Author: Jay Tea
9/11: Eight Years Later – 9:59AM
At this moment, eight years ago, the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed....
9/11:Eight Years Later – 9:37AM
At this moment, eight years ago, American Airlines Flight 77 with 64 people aboard crashed into the Pentagon....
9/11: Eight Years Later – 8:46AM
At this very moment, eight years ago, American Airlines Flight 11, with 92 people on board, crashed into 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower)....
Still Clinging…
There's an old saw that the human body replaces every cell over a seven-year period. According to this apocryphal bit of wisdom, over that time each single cell in …
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
World War II (a particular fascination of mine) was, in brief a "photographer's war." Arguably, it produced the most iconic photos of any conflict -- so many amazing, astonishing, …
A Flawed Metaphor
I missed Obama's speech last night (Wednesdays, my local gaming shop hosts a board gaming night, and I try not to miss it), but I caught some clips from …
Selective Silence
Well, another New York Times reporter has gotten himself kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. And once again, the Times chose to sit on the story until after he …
Core Principles
That tremendous gust of wind that swept across the nation yesterday was not your imagination. It was millions of Americans sighing in relief -- Joseph P. Kennedy II will …
Why Don’t You Just Die Already, You Oxygen-Thieving Waste Of Skin?
I'm a bit of a fan of historic fiction and alternative history. I've dabbled in the former, and I recently discovered Robert Conroy's "1942" and "1945." (The former deals …