13 thoughts on “Too Many Dishonorable People Are Honored”
There’s always the case for the inverse of “It’s a Wonderful Life” to be true as well. But it would make for a horribly depressing movie nobody would pay to see.
I think The Fairly OddParents did an episode like that. Everyone was better off without Timmy.
“Dallas” did one too. The results from J.R. never being born were mixed.
The results from J.R. never being born were mixed.
But America benefited greatly from the heroic contributions of Gen. (nee Major) Anthony “Tony” Nelson USAF (ret). Is there an antique vase he picked up after being stranded on an island in the Pacific due to a forced landing from space now on display at the Jim Beam Bourbon Museum ?
Interesting how Major Roger Healey’s career paralleled so closely that of Gen. Nelson, despite Healey being to all appearances a major screw-up. Perhaps Healey’s “class clown” act was merely a façade assumed by a remarkably gifted and supremely competent pilot and astronaut.
For some reason he reminds me of airline pilot Captain Howard Borden, but nobody has ever accused him of being competent.
+10
Maj. (nee Captain) Healy (US Army) was in the Army Corps of Engineers so maybe he was a diversity hire into an Astronaut Corps dominated by Blue Suits?
Yes a striking resemblance between the two careers…
Robert Zubrin has written an excellent book on the topic of this and all the other crimes committed in the name of heading off some future environmental catastrophe: “The Merchants of Despair”.
Can’t recommend it highly enough.
I came here to say this, Mike. Heartily seconded. I knew intellectually that the USA was not an unalloyed force for good in the history of the world, but this book really drove home how much evil the country that I love has done.
Agree. Also, stay the hell out of West Virginia.
Oh, and lets not lionize the mass murderer, Rachel Carson
This might be an appropriate time to reveal that for more decades/& fractions thereof that I can recall, I’ve been an unaffiliated Independent.
There are a lot of people I don’t really like.
I’m now old enough to no longer care about who likes me.
Money, sex,emotional connection isn’t much of a thing anymore.
Don’t annoy me and we’ll be good.
When you can retire, you get to relax. You were the Salmon that made it over the waterfalls and got the chance to mate.
Looking back over my life, I would have treated most people differently.
Not because they didn’t deserve it at the time, but because I now know who I should have been in the moment, before I actually knew who I should have been in the moment.
There’s always the case for the inverse of “It’s a Wonderful Life” to be true as well. But it would make for a horribly depressing movie nobody would pay to see.
I think The Fairly OddParents did an episode like that. Everyone was better off without Timmy.
“Dallas” did one too. The results from J.R. never being born were mixed.
The results from J.R. never being born were mixed.
But America benefited greatly from the heroic contributions of Gen. (nee Major) Anthony “Tony” Nelson USAF (ret). Is there an antique vase he picked up after being stranded on an island in the Pacific due to a forced landing from space now on display at the Jim Beam Bourbon Museum ?
Interesting how Major Roger Healey’s career paralleled so closely that of Gen. Nelson, despite Healey being to all appearances a major screw-up. Perhaps Healey’s “class clown” act was merely a façade assumed by a remarkably gifted and supremely competent pilot and astronaut.
For some reason he reminds me of airline pilot Captain Howard Borden, but nobody has ever accused him of being competent.
+10
Maj. (nee Captain) Healy (US Army) was in the Army Corps of Engineers so maybe he was a diversity hire into an Astronaut Corps dominated by Blue Suits?
Yes a striking resemblance between the two careers…
Robert Zubrin has written an excellent book on the topic of this and all the other crimes committed in the name of heading off some future environmental catastrophe: “The Merchants of Despair”.
Can’t recommend it highly enough.
I came here to say this, Mike. Heartily seconded. I knew intellectually that the USA was not an unalloyed force for good in the history of the world, but this book really drove home how much evil the country that I love has done.
Agree. Also, stay the hell out of West Virginia.
Oh, and lets not lionize the mass murderer, Rachel Carson
This might be an appropriate time to reveal that for more decades/& fractions thereof that I can recall, I’ve been an unaffiliated Independent.
There are a lot of people I don’t really like.
I’m now old enough to no longer care about who likes me.
Money, sex,emotional connection isn’t much of a thing anymore.
Don’t annoy me and we’ll be good.
When you can retire, you get to relax. You were the Salmon that made it over the waterfalls and got the chance to mate.
Looking back over my life, I would have treated most people differently.
Not because they didn’t deserve it at the time, but because I now know who I should have been in the moment, before I actually knew who I should have been in the moment.