“Fire the Generals”

A friend of mine, who is a retired career military man and a keen observer of things in a pragmatic way, explained to me that the military has determined that when conditions change in a substantive, marked manner—as in going from one type of war to another—the policy is, as he put it, to “fire the generals.”

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Stupid Criminal, Part 26
A bank robber in Stockton, CA, bungled his escape when he crashed his getaway car into another vehicle.  The conscientious criminal did stop to make sure the victim was OK, at which point he offered to share a portion of his “withdrawal” for her silence, admitting to the woman the money was the result of his crime spree. – Read More

She Didn’t Land On “Free Parking”
A civil servant in Graz, Austria, is about to spend 500 days in jail as a result of her failure to pay more than $30,000 in parking tickets, ignoring more than 700 attempts by authorities to let her know about her parking tab. – Read More

A New Stimulus Idea
After breaking his arm as the result of a fall at a function in Auckland, New Zealand, Prime Minister John Key was encouraged to auction his cast for charity, raising $9,490 for the Fred Hollows Foundation, which conducts blindness-prevention surgeries for impoverished people on the Solomon Islands. – Read More

Trunks Are for More than Golf Clubs
A 16-year-old escapee from a Macomb County, MI, courthouse thought he could foil authorities by hiding in the trunk of an unlocked 2002 Lincoln Continental parked under the courthouse, paying no attention to who the spot was reserved for. – Read More

Divine Intervention
Maybe it was God telling him he wasn’t on the right road. Regardless, a young German driver is recovering after driving too fast around a bend in the road that resulted in his Skoda flying 115 ft. in the air, onto the roof of a church. – Read More

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Bye, Bob
One of the astonishing things about the announced retirement of Bob Lutz, GM vice chair—Global Product Development is that it is being treated as though it is startling, unusual, unexpected. If Martians landed on top of the GM HQ RenCen building it would probably be received with less astonishment.  ...Read More