Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

Yes, I’m writing yet another post about a strange boat.  But, as usual, you have to go around three sides of the barn to get to the horse at...

The new semester has started, and if all goes well, I’ll graduate—again—in the spring.  I’m only taking two courses this semester, but my tu...

While I was growing up, we lived in a small Texas town so remote that we had cable radio…Well, almost.  We certainly didn’t have a local new...

A fake army is a force that does not exist—a military force that actually is not capable of delivering a strike against any opponent.  It ex...

There are certain obvious, every day, common things and knowledge that most of us have never noticed that either never existed or that have ...

Revolutions, like forest fires, are far easier to start than to end.  Countless revolutionary leaders have discovered the difficulty of disb...

There is an ongoing writers’ strike in Hollywood—the writers are concerned about the impact of AI on their future employment.  They’re right...

Reading is my favorite preoccupation.  Take one look inside our house and this is obvious:  the house is flooded with books in every imagina...

This is one of those blogs that will likely cost me subscribers, as readers on both the left and the right will become angry and stop readin...

Everyone has heard of the greatest Russian general of all time—General January.  And I have written several times about how General Yellow F...