Eric Chandler

A benediction

Lake Superior

Everything Just Got Better(™) under the Belt of Venus by @lakesuperior.bsky.social while grilling chicken Edition. @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social

I wrote it over ten years ago and it still seems valid.

Day-um 😳

TIRED: “four weeks”

WIRED: “forever.”

W the everloving F

So what you are saying is that you let your *junior* security partner back you into a major regional war *again* because your are so feckless and weak that you couldn't tell them that the risk to American interests was too severe to permit their (optional, unnecessary) strike?

👋 Former State Department War Powers lawyer here.

This statement by Rubio is false.

As @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and I wrote in January:
www.justsecurity.org/128517/war-p...

In today's edition of the Article I Crisis

Reader's View: Let's be smarter this time about Duluth's growth Development doesn't have to be in opposition to preservation

www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/lett...

Veterans ‘split’ over Iran strikes. Some see payback, others see another ‘forever war’ President Donald Trump has said military operations against Iran could last four to five weeks — or longer. Veterans have heard this before.

"Founding Fathers left the role of going to war in the hands of Congress, to ensure the American people had a voice in matters of foreign policy: It is essential the elected leaders in Washington debate and vote on these actions in line with the Constitution."

taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...

Shriek — Line Of Advance Literary Journal Poem Veteran Pilot

I recently wrote about the only time I ever heard my own bombs. www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2025/9/...

“We would never not unpreemptively unstrike a target. We decided to undefensively not never proactively target. We know that they know that we don’t know that they know we know they don’t know.”

We are in good hands.

Reformed Church, which is a very tough church, indeed. He used to ask me sneeringly sometimes why I hadn't been an officer, as though I'd done something wrong. My wife and I had lost our baby fat. Those were our scrawny years. We had a lot of scrawny veterans and their scrawny wives for friends. The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. I wrote the Air Force back then, asking for de- 13

I’m just going to keep posting Vonnegut’s line from Slaughterhouse-Five every time I see one of these bloodthirsty chicken hawks.

Stand for the Land No matter where you live, tell your senators to vote NO on HJR 140. The Senate votes this week

His fade-away jumper was to ratfuck the BWCA by whipping votes for HJR 140 while claiming to be a Teddy Roosevelt conservationist. Context here and you still have time to contact your senators: open.substack.com/pub/ericchan...

Ultrafine shit-mist

I have too much time on my hands

A graphic that compares the logo for AI product Claude with Kurt Vonnegut's depiction of an asshole from Breakfast of Champions. They are very similar.

I can't be the first to notice that the Claude logo looks exactly how Vonnegut drew an asshole for Breakfast of Champions. This is either intetional or an accident. Either way a good argument for hiring humanities majors.

I very nearly skied my fastest Birkie this year.

But I didn’t.

The Pentagon confirmed there was NO sign that Iran was going to attack the U.S.

No imminent threat.
No authorization from Congress.
No reason our service members should be dead.
And no exit plan or strategy.

This war on Iran is a reckless and deadly mistake by this regime.

It’s one of the truest things I’ve ever read.

James Salter Reads my Mind I went back to work at United Airlines one year ago. I’ve already forgotten what some switches did in my military airplane. What callsigns used to go with which airspace. Did that happen on t…

Salter also writes about the desire not to talk about it anymore. ericchandler.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/j...

For years I figured other veterans shut up about their service because of some latent trauma. Perhaps I'm woefully naïve, but it never occurred to me they might stay silent because of the response they might receive. I don't talk much about the military anymore, at least not in casual conversations or in detail with folks I don't know very well. The subject has a tendency to spray a social gathering with what seems to be an ultrafine shit-mist, regardless of whether I'm talking about a wild barracks party during a hurricane or a day in Iraq when my buddy and I laughed and shoved each other like schoolkids as we lugged a machinegun to the roof of a building taking sniper fire. There's often an unspoken

This one is also about storytelling by Jerad Alexander. I think of the shit-mist every time I’m about to open my mouth in a social setting. Which is what helps me shut up. His story is spot on here: militaryexperience.org/2015/09/01/o...

America just went to war without:

- Congressional authorization
- Clear justification
- A plan for regime change

Hope is not a strategy. The American people deserve much much better.

Excuse me? With no rules of engagement - no moral and legal limits - you lead a band of nicely dressed murderers. Not #InOurName and not on our dime.

We are not led by serious people. I guess it’s the bloodlust I don’t understand the most. Everytime this guy speaks I think of Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse-Five:

It is very telling that Trump and other defenders of his illegal war on Iran have to resort to the airing of a litany of grievances stretching back to 1979 rather than citing an imminent threat to the United States (much less an actual armed attack) as the casus belli.

Tobias funke but it might work for us meme

U.S. government every few years

College dropout banner celebrating education

So now for the rest of time, you'll have to make clear which OEF you were in. The poetic part is that EF also stands for Epstein Files.