This ran over a month ago, but I had wanted to wait to post it until I had a new contract with the Ink. Since I only sell them first print rights, I am giving away first electronic rights by posting here. Hope you enjoy it, and feel free to offer constructive criticism if you wish. I'll post the next one (from later in June) tomorrow and the third (from mid-july) on Friday.
Also, please note that I am establishing a low-volume ping list for my column work. This will be pinged once or twice a month at first, but I will eventually be writing for them weekly. Sing out if you want on the list.
Congratulations!
Very interesting and well-written. Sounds like you will be a great help to the local people there.
One grammar comment I'll add. (I hesitate to say this, because I make grammar mistakes myself! But you asked for any constructive criticism...)
"It could only make about 100 knots when loaded, and had an awful rate of climb."
There should not be a comma after the word "loaded."
Your article is great, so please only take this as encouragement!
Woo hoo! Congrats to a published FReeper!!
A congrats BTTT!
A better example might be the WBTS when the South could not afford to keep up with technological advances like the Spencers. That was costly.
Your article sounds a lot like Hanson's work.
CONGRATS!
Great article.
This is not a criticism at all, but just my 2 cents...
Word is that the Mitsubishi Zero was a carbon copy of a plane Howard Hughes had offered the US armed forces before the war, and they turned it down.
Certainly, it was better than anything we had in December, 1941.
I just hope your new career as a paid media whore doesn't take away from my beloved
Useful Idiot Caption-a-Rama!
I just love that!
Congratulations! Never forget...
IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!
That is so exciting - and it's a great column! Put me on your permanent ping list!
Kerry seemed to believe that all the complex problems of U.S.-Soviet relations would vanish with a “poof” if we would just build fewer ships and planes.
Funny how it turned out exactly the opposite. The Gipper built more military hardware... and all the complex problems of U.S.-Soviet relations vanished with a "poof".
Sign me up, please.
Great article! I am very impressed.
Please put me on this ping list also. (Don't take me off the other one though!)
Which really costs more, defense or tribute? If you doubt the answers, consider that we can’t ask Lt. Commander John Waldron. He and his men lie somewhere northwest of Midway Island, a grave they were brought to by their own valor and other men’s wishful thinking.
I had an opinion column published here about 6 weeks ago in our local paper (a NYT affiliate) on abortion. They published it, but beat the bushes for an alternative view. It was written, incidently, by a pro-choice, pro-gay marriage unitarian univeralist reverend. They published our opinions side by side.
At first, I was a little miffed, but then I decided I must have hit a nerve, otherwise an alternative view would not have been necessary.
Congratulations! I'm very impressed. You were paid! And even better, right about Kerry.
Almost forgot. Please add me to your ping list.
YOU DONE GOOD MAYNARD
Keep 'em coming.
Good article. Remember us little folks when you are a big famous writer.
Congratulations, but this better not cut into the Caption-O-Rama.... :)