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PTSD and Sensational News Media
Or should I say Irresponsible News Media? Or even Cynically Deceptive News Media? They all fit. One weekend while I was in Afghanistan (during my second straight year of combat deployment in 2003) my...
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“Armored” on the Shelves
The last month has been pretty crazy for me. I spent most of it in Korea doing various mentally and physically strenuous things. Separate post for all of that. While I was gone the anthology I’m in...
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Enlightenment Through Condescension
John Scalzi wrote an intriguing piece the other day exploring the metaphor of life as a video game, specifically the premise that Straight White Males have life the easiest of all character classes in...
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Not Going to Roswell
I’m in Capitan, New Mexico right now. The birth and final resting place of Smokey Bear. (Not Smokey THE Bear just Smokey Bear. Get it right you soft-shoed urbanite.) I’m learning how to track people....
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Uniform on Display, A Response
Myke Cole wrote an intriguing piece over on Jim C. Hines blog the other day. It was entitled Uniform in the Closet: Why Military SF’s Popularity Worries Me. In it Myke opined that there is a widening...
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It’s been too long and I simply must give a shout out to Tangent Online and Joe Giddings for reviewing Armored. Mr. Giddings liked my story and said as much in his review , “In my opinion, the best...
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The Amazing Spider-Man
I was not looking forward to this film when its marketing push first started. We already had one of these didn’t we? Good ones even. And the actor playing Spider-Man looked like a goof. Especially his...
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Guns, Ignorance, and Fear
My heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones in Aurora, Colorado this weekend. The kind of fear, pain, and horror their loved ones experienced in that theater, and the kind of fear, pain, and...
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PTSD, Interesting
This links to an article on a study done in Denmark. The study was carried out on Danish soldiers who served in Afghanistan. The main thrust of the article lines up with my own experience and gut...
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