New Orleans I can’t stop reading these articles about ex-CIA spy chief, General David Petraeus, not because of the affair, which seems so mundane that you wonder what came over his biographer and paramour, Paula Broadwell, to send anonymous email bombs to potential rivals, given how buttoned down these two were. What is titillating about …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Military Unemployment Especially for Women Vets
New Orleans I’ve wondered about military unemployment since spending time with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law in Seoul on a Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago. Both enlisted years ago in the U.S. Army. He stayed in until he qualified for a decent retirement, and then over recent years managed to get virtually the same …
Half-a-Loaf: The Hard Lessons of Elections
New Orleans As we peel more layers off the onion of the recent election, there’s more good news and more bad, but there are also refresher courses that remind us of lessons we’ve painfully won, but are forced into detention to review yet again. The hardest is often the tough lesson of elections: it is …