Lovely Ladies of the Left

The cold is ravaging the Stroock family. All except us. Unless that scratchy throat we had yesterday was our lone symptom. Seriously, we should have been laid low by now. Yes, we're aware we're tempting both Kek and Jobu.

One tries to be positive. One tries to eschew mean words. But then one sees Mad Maxine Waters bashing the Declaration of Independence, and Cori Bush Tweeting, 'This land is stolen land and Black people still aren’t free,' and the lovely ladies of the US Women's Soccer team turning their backs on the National Anthem, racial shyster Nicole Hannah Jones gets tenure at UNC but choses Howard instead...One word comes to mind, and it rhymes with... 

Zerohedge says the Taliban is unstoppable: 'In recent days, the Taliban’s march through northern Afghanistan gained momentum with the capture of several districts from fleeing Afghan forces. More than 300 Afghan military personnel crossed from Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province as Taliban fighters advanced towards the border. The Afghan soldiers escaped to neighboring Tajikistan, saving their lives from the enemy. On July 4th, the Taliban was on the verge of taking Faizabad, the provincial capital of the Badakhshan province. Senior local officials have already taken a flight and escaped to Kabul.' This blog couldn't care less. There's nothing in Afghanistan worth fighting for. We hope people that worked for the US are getting out of the country. But seriously, 20 years and you folks can't get your shit together?

A very good day of writing. We went through the now 25,000 words we've written for The Weser and gotten things straightened out, explained, and making sense. We still don't have much of an idea how we're writing the British. We don't want this chapter to look like the American chapter, do we? We'll see. 

For that matter, World War 1990: The Weser is starting to feel like the battle scenes in World War 1990: Nederland. We're working with a lot of the same ideas and themes. Which is fine. When someone reads and likes the thing you wrote, they want another thing just like it. 

Then we went through the Falkland naval scenes in The Great Nuclear War of 1975 and came away pleased. We've been using A Carrier at Risk, about the ARA 25 de Mayo as a reference for the Argentine navy. This is part of the Latin America @War series. Yesterday we discovered there's a volume about Brit sub efforts. So it's in the mail. 

We have the Admiralty dispatch one sub only to the Falklands. Why not three? Seriously, why not? Because one lone sub makes for a submarine adventure. In other words, because the plot needs it. Ok, a throw away line about resource scarcity and needing to keep the sub fleet in the North Sea, Atlantic, etc to watch out for the Ruskis will do it. But still.