The wife and I watched 6 Underground, a Michael Bay 'splosion-fest where Ryan Reynolds and his plucky group of overpowered nameless mercenaries overthrow an authoritarian government and install the dictator's democracy loving brother in his place. The problem is it’s so 19th century. Of course it's his movie (and probably soon to be another franchise) so he can do what he wants and how he wants, but that’s what got me to harken back to Luttwak’s book. Coup D’etat: A Practical Handbook Edward Luttwak 1968 ~209 pages without introduction & foreword Not a great book by not a great intellectual. I tell you why in my own rambley way and pontificate on coup attempts in American history and why we may have had a coup 70 years ago and not even known it.

Just a quick video I put together to try to start learning my video editing software. Yeah, I suck at it, but no one is having more fun than me!