by Piper Bayard | Aug 15, 2011 | Apocalypse
By Piper Bayard My heart is heavy today thinking about our soldiers killed when our enemies brought down their Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan last week. Seventeen Navy SEALs, five conventional forces, three Air Force forward air controllers, five Army helicopter...
by Piper Bayard | May 2, 2011 | Apocalypse, Foreign Affairs, History
I have been out of town for the past several days, and, as it happens, I was with my writing partner, “Holmes,” in Arizona last night when the news went public that Bin Laden is dead. We broke open a bottle of champagne and toasted. Not in merriment or triumph, but in...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 17, 2011 | Apocalypse, Foreign Affairs, Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes Western governments have, thus far, declined to use any portion of their massive military superiority to intervene on behalf of the anti-Gadhafi rebels in Libya. It appears that, after their initial, timid response to the rebels, Gadhafi’s...
by Piper Bayard | Jan 24, 2011 | Apocalypse
Last week, I was reading The Road. It reminded me of unemployment and got me thinking about going vegetarian. Since then, I’ve worked a bit of meat back into my diet, but I think cuts with bones may always give me pause. Anyway, the unemployment road isn’t quite...
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