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Greg Maddux Got Lonely On The Mound 23 Aug 2013 | 01:02 am
From ESPN: Maddux was so dominating, he practically eliminated the need to hold mound conferences. “One time,” [Leo] Mazzone [the Braves pitching coach] said with a laugh, “he said to me, ‘Come on o...
Embargos, Miranda, and Khaaaannn! 20 Aug 2013 | 10:20 pm
So, what happened while this blog* was on vacation? Hmm (I started to use the list tag from HTML, but it just looked so 1990s): 1. The American Historical Association came out (as historical associa...
Suicide in the Military 16 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
The suicide rate in the military has been in the news over the last few years. Last year’s total number of suicides, 349, were higher than the number of combat fatalities for the year. More members of...
The Chivalry of the Rebel General Lee 15 Aug 2013 | 09:10 am
Having returned from my vacation (the Jersey shore; very restful. To keep up my military history credentials, I went and took a look at Bunker 223: It’s not actually terribly interesting as it looks ...
Stop Your Vessel Immediately! (aka “Slutbag” in Signal Flags) 31 Jul 2013 | 09:37 pm
Because the Tenured Radical requested it: Source. Shockingly, there is no flag code specifically for “slutbag,” so the above spells it out letter for letter. Some of the flags have larger meanings th...
Vomiting is Present! Man Overboard! 25 Jul 2013 | 10:58 pm
Sometimes, two forms of communication don’t mix: When the National Park Service wanted to dress up the U.S. Navy Memorial here, officials decided to fly signal flags, a colorful but archaic form of s...
Annual Deaths in the US Military, 1980-2010 24 Jul 2013 | 10:52 pm
Not all deaths in the military come from combat, or during wars: Interestingly, in the raw numbers, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had death counts that were actually matched or surpassed by those ...
MOOC 21 Jul 2013 | 10:35 pm
Go read Tenured Radical’s comment on the recent revelation from San Jose State’s use of MOOCs, in which 83% of students finished the course and 56-76% of them failed it. She pretty much hits the nail ...
Annual Number of Americans Drafted, 1917-1973 19 Jul 2013 | 01:46 am
From here. Interesting in chart form: Emphasizes for me just how much World War II was an outlier in terms of national effort in the 20th century. Update: Now draft numbers as a percentage of total ...
Today in Bad Math: Military and Sexual Assault Division 16 Jul 2013 | 12:55 am
Lindsay Rodman, a Marine officer (and, we are told, a Harvard and Duke graduate), attempts to unskew the numbers on sexual assaults in the military in the Wall Street Journal. “The Pentagon’s Bad Math...
