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Winter's End

It didn’t feel like the end of winter—because in a very real sense it wasn’t. Early in the month, with little more than an hour or two...

Eat Shit or Die Trying

During the first year of the Trump administration, the operating budget of the USAP was cut by 10% across the board. I realize that may...

A Rare, High-Risk Mission

The Kiwi C-130 Herc touched down on the runway at Phoenix shortly after 0600 Monday morning. Fleet Ops had been working on getting it...

A Flight Named Godot

It was the sort of everyday accident so commonplace as to seem almost inevitable in retrospect. On an unremarkable Thursday morning, the...

Winter Brain

There is a point in the winter at which going outside becomes consistently strange and uncomfortable, even in the moments when you’re...

Midwinter

The eve of the midwinter celebration brought the first con 1 of the season. The weather conditions, or cons, are numbered on a scale...

Heart of Darkness

When Peggy Sue first suggested I drop the early-morning workout routine and join her at lunch for my daily session of stationary-bike...

Homemade Transcendence, part 2

There is a kind of cultural momentum that bolsters the large events throughout mainbody. Each requires a lot of work on the part of many...

Homemade Transcendence, part 1

The first problem with the story was the way it was almost immediately taken out of its proper context; the second problem was the way it...

An (Incomplete) Glossary of Antarctic Terms

Learn to speak like an Antarctican! Sprinkle the words and acronyms from this long overdue and woefully incomplete guide into your...

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