Archive for October 18th, 2018

TMQ Watch: October 16, 2018.

Thursday, October 18th, 2018

Apropos of nothing in particular, a musical interlude:

There. Feel better?

After the jump, this week’s TMQ

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Obit watch: October 18, 2018.

Thursday, October 18th, 2018

Yesterday’s headline of the day:

Nevada’s famous pimp expected to win election despite death

NYT obit for Dennis Hof.

Felix Smith, pilot for Civil Air Transport.

Civil Air Transport, which was later run by the C.I.A., was a back-channel carrier assembled in 1946 by former Lt. Gen. Claire L. Chennault of the Army Air Forces using surplus World War II planes and a supply and maintenance ship and recruiting pilots from the Flying Tigers, a volunteer World War II unit famed for its exploits in the skies over China. The airline’s aim was to undergird the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the protracted civil war against the Communists.

CAT evolved into the legendary Air America.