Machine Gun Auction

Do you have more money than you can spend? Do you want to preserve some serious history?

And do you want to have your own MG-42 (along with tons of other machine guns)?

Check out this auction

Richard L. Wray Collection Auction

And if you don't have tons of money, just go look anyway, because there are some amazing pieces of history there.

308 Reasons to Love Italy

Ferrari 308 rally. Some people may disagree, but I think this car is amazing.

Looking Back

I look at old photos - mostly from WWII - and sitting here I really start to think about them. I find it amazing that to the people in the photos, the war wasn't history. It was the present. We view the past in a sort of jaded way. We are looking back on it and that changes our view in a way. We have to realize that these people, the ones in the photograph, and the one behind the camera, aren't just some people who did something once in a battle, they were people. They had families and lives and problems. They all loved, they all hated, they all needed money, they all knew what it was like to imagine the future. These people were caught up in a crazy bunch of events, collisions between nation's armies and intense political battles. Danger, heartbreak, fear, love. We look back on these things and say "oh why of course the Germans are the bad guys. All those guys were Nazis." But we forget that they were just people. Just normal people. All caught up in something crazy and out of their control. That is how I like to look at history.

Small

I need to learn to feel small again.

Lagging Behind

Steam locomotives still in daily use in North Korea in the early 1980s. Photo by Japanese photojournalist Hiroji Kubota.

Iraq War Photos

Take a few minutes and look back at what was a very large part of the early 21st century and a large part of my life so far.

Photos: The Iraq War, 10 years on

Logic

I live in the US, and I find things like this to be very curious. I live in a very wealthy country, but why can't we even think of doing this? There's the typical responses; It's too much work, it's too expensive, we've got plenty of oil and coal.

Well, if India can do it, why can't we?