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This is the view from my front door. I can barely see across the canyon. Rain FTW!

Kate and I took six people up a fire road near Top Of Topanga -- hiked along the fire road for about a mile until we reached a hill with a great view, and then ate a picnic dinner while we watched the sun set, the city lights, and the moon …

...is that everyone has the same ones.

Reading Defense Tech (as usual) I came across this quote about Israel using undercover special-ops teams who pass for Palestinian:

Of the 2,200 arrests Israelis made in the West Bank last year, about 1,500 were conducted by special operation forces (SOF …

A Theory of Power, Jeff Vail's Critique of Hierarchy & Empire

"While fighting to gain control of the province of Bactria, Alexander the Great was confronted by the swarming tactics of Scythian horse-archers. His primary unit--the Macedonian Phalanx--could not cope with the mobile, pulsing, ranged attacks of these units, which would …