The Reading Junkie

A California Army National Guard CH-47 carries a "Bambi" bucket at the California Department Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) annual joint fire...

2014. The California Guard trained with Cal Fire and other civilian agencies at Ione in preparation for the highly anticipated upcoming fire season....

Alifornia Army National Guard UH-72 Lakota helicopter from Company A, 3-140th Service and Support Aviation Battalion, lifts off a helipad at the Calif...

A California Army National Guard CH-47 helicopter from Company A, 3-140th Service and Support Aviation Battalion, lifts off a helipad at the Californi...

I just watched the 1984 BBC docudrama Threads. In many ways, it is typical of a Cold War film at the height of the Red Scare. However, Threads created...

The 1983 Soviet stop-motion animation, Conflict ( Конфликт), presents a simple and pure message. A modern war between two world powers is insa...

Since I was gone for so long, here's some memes to catch up. Both my own original content, and others I found. Afghanistan, neoliberalism, and more we...

The Girl With All the Gifts literally compares black people to flesh-eating zombies who destroy Western civilization, and praises this as a good thing...

Here's the paradox of building a relationship with the USA. The only way to get Republicans to respect you is to be a macho tough guy - and have a str...

The last 600 years—the totality of modern history—were an invention of the West. Art, industry, law, music, philosophy, science, and technology—...

This month was a little rough, but I'm back and will be posting more consistently now, fingers crossed!...

In order to see the all-important relationship between the housing bubble and the ensuing financial collapse, one needs to look at the changes made in...