1st LAI Takes Friendly Fire

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“Can you tell us how they describe the event? I have not read that book or read any accounts of that event outside official and classified military documents.” As promised, ST, here’s the account from: “Desert Storm: A Forgotten War”: RAS AL-KHAFJI AND OTHER MAJOR GROUND ACTIONS(29/30 JAN 1991) “The first attack occurred in the … Continue reading 1st LAI Takes Friendly Fire

Christmas Greeting, 2025

Here's my late-Advent/Christmas greeting to ST, and all the netizens of Unwoked and Unvaxxed: A jazz-infused version of the week-long daily antiphons used in the liturgy from December 16-23. These are drawn from the writings of Isaiah, the prophet - and still express our longing today: "Lord Jesus - Come!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S8ujTS2qQg

By Request: All in a Day’s Work with Simon Templar and Friends

Greetings to the Netizens of ST’s Unwoked & Unvaxxed! In our prior exploration of the story of ST, we met him and several of his international colleagues in the atmosphere of some well-earned recreation after a series of annual/semi-annual, coordinated drug-interdiction exercises [“Exercise Fuerzas Unidas-Contradrogas Riberena”] with partner nations all up and down the “spine” of the … Continue reading By Request: All in a Day’s Work with Simon Templar and Friends

By Request: Introducing “Simon Templar!”

Greetings ST, and All the UnWoked/UnVaxxed! His Graciously UnleashWokedness/UnVaxxness has asked yours truly to reflect once again on his transformation from an “international man of mystery” (IMOM) to an instantly recognizable man of action/raconteur known as: “Simon Templar”. Therewith comes a tale. Let me say at the outset that simplicity suits the truth best. A … Continue reading By Request: Introducing “Simon Templar!”

Sanctuary! Laws and Lore

I’ll bet when you glanced at my title, you thought of Victor Hugo’s hunchback, Quasimodo, standing in a portico of Notre dame de Paris, holding aloft the unconscious maiden he has just rescued from the gallows and bellowing, “SANCTUAREEEEE!”  It’s a thrilling cry that reverberates down the ages.  But it’s much older than Hugo’s 19th … Continue reading Sanctuary! Laws and Lore