Archives for November 2020

Quote of the week: “It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government. Ye are a pack of mercenary …

David Koplow is my go-to guy on arms control and treaty law. David teaches at Georgetown Law. He has previously served at the Pentagon and at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He knows whereof he speaks. David has kindly agreed to weigh in on the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty. His …

Lyric of the week: “Excuse me while I kiss the sky” — Jimi Hendrix Quote of the week: “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” — e. …

Quote of the week: “Trumpism is, at heart, not a philosophy but an enemies list.” – Kevin D. Williamson Lyric of the week: “I wish I was a fisherman Tumblin’ on the seas Far away from dry land And it’s bitter memories … I wish I was the brakeman On a hurtlin fevered train Crashin …

Lyric of the week: “You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes You just might find, well, You get what you need” — The Rolling Stones Exhale and enjoy. Breathe in deeply. Notice that which can provide sustenance during hard times. Like the creative and idiosyncratic ways that leaves fall to the …

Some unresolved questions surround the huge new mobile missiles that North Korea showed off in last month’s parade. Most of all: what will they carry, and when will the North Koreans reveal it through flight-testing? Let’s start with what we can observe. The external characteristics of the weapon are consistent with a two-stage, liquid-propelled ICBM. …