We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:40:02 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification We need something uplifting here, given John’s downer inducing piece from yesterday. Enter, stage right, Bill Whittle of Eject! Eject! Eject! with his typical brilliance. Guess what? You Are Not Alone. (Warning: it’s a two parter and realllllllly long. But unlike me Whittle is coherent and readable.) --ry [Armorer adds - Oooo. Nice. Go. Read.] [Update: Part 2 of Whittle's screed is *exactly* why I changed the tone of this blog. And imposed the Rulez. I just was tired of the rancor without resolution. -the Armorer]... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html Wed, 23 May 2007 00:15:44 -0600 The herd most certainly needs some thinning, I'll grant you that. I'm not sure that the intent here is to avoid thinning. Typical thinning, however, would entail the loss of wheat with the chaff, so to speak, because of regional association. Instead, the Ejectia community is not regional, it is virtual - so I would hope that the thinning would be more ... surgical. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html#comment-60316 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html#comment-60316 Wed, 23 May 2007 18:51:38 -0600 That is a fascinating read at Eject!Eject!Eject! and an admirable goal. As optimistic as I would like to try to be about an end run on the cycle of civilizations, I'm personally not convinced that the thinning of the herd associated with the cycle is something that can or maybe even should be avoided. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html#comment-60312 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html#comment-60312 Wed, 23 May 2007 16:59:38 -0600 Yay ... Bill finally posted it. He's been threatening/promising for days. Dang ... I didn't really want to get any work done today. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html#comment-60285 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html#comment-60285 Wed, 23 May 2007 08:11:07 -0600 BS - you need to get the "backwards" typefont... Oh, never mind. The template doesn't recognize it. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html#comment-60283 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html#comment-60283 Wed, 23 May 2007 06:21:00 -0600 ?yR, yas ot gniyrt ouy tahW !!ouy evol eW http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html#comment-60281 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/be_of_stout_hea.html#comment-60281 Wed, 23 May 2007 00:30:44 -0600