Punching Up is a plainspoken, politically sharp commentary covering, society, politics and common sense and some occasional cat dad stories. Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, but never afraid to say the truth.
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It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green
If there were a National Museum of China, Glassware, and Crystal in Washington, DC, it would be on most of our minds about as often as we wondered who was the ninth-ranked badminton player in the world (Yu-Yu Ong, Taiwan) or whether there h...
A Man in the Area
In 1928, Trygve Hammer, a Norwegian immigrant skilled with a hammer and chisel, carved a stone relief of Theodore Roosevelt into a giant block of Indiana limestone. He flanked Roosevelt’s image with two life-sized limestone bears. On the op...
Tilting at Turbines (and Turbans)
Things That Come up at Candidate Forums
Sharia law was not on my candidate-forum bingo card. I thought that particular bogeyman had been knocked off the list of frightening things to think about while voting. When I heard it mentioned in a...
Billions and Billions
One Thousand Million-Dollar Ballrooms, or One Day of Bombing Iran
On a Wednesday night in September of 1989, Carl Sagan delivered a lecture at the U.S. Naval Academy. I should have paid better attention, but it was a mandatory event and th...
Over a Barrel
Nobody (Everybody) Knew That a War in the Persian Gulf Would Do This
We need a big, beautiful ballroom, and a Golden Dome. Then we’ll be safe. Then everything will be perfect.
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Navy Enlisted to USNA Grad, Helicopter and fixed-wing pilot. USMC (ret), OIF veteran (infantry), Science Teacher, Writer. 2024 Candidate for U.S. House. Learn more about me here: https://www.hammerfornd.com/
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