Today, $170 million will be spent on an event. A celebration. A new beginning. A signal that change is coming. There will be music and fireworks and fanfare. There will be pride in the chests of the 13% or so of Americans who identify themselves as “black” or “African-American” as they see someone who shares [...]
I found a post from Immoral Matriarch that inspired me to, like she did, list some of my favorite Muskrat moments from last year: May: Muskrat is invited to speak at a local elementary school and posts the questions the children ask in Answers to the Children’s Questions. He is unlikely to be asked to [...]
Merry Christmas from Father Muskrat!
The first time I deployed in support of OIF, Americans were still fairly novel creatures to the regular “Joe Iraqi” townsfolk, as were our beardless faces, our cargo pants, and–most intriguing–our sunglasses. On one of the two trips I took “outside the wire” while there (both unauthorized), I saw firsthand the perception they had about [...]
Father Muskrat (taking a pull from a hidden flask and muttering to himself): Who’s there? Brenda: It is I, Father. And it stinks in here, by the way. FM: Well, it is the season for merry-making, and this pious old barrister has been included on a lot of guest lists this week, so ignore the [...]
