Navigation? There are a "Home" button and an "Up" button on every page. The Home button will take you back to the front of the site. The Up button will always take you up or back one page to the previous page you were viewing, usually a menu, to choose another article page.

I have left "You Are Here" and "A Few Quotes" as the first two pages in the site because I felt like doing it. All the rest of the pages are arranged in reverse chronological order, with the newest pages immediately following the "A Few Quotes" page. You might consider this to be a horizontal blog, since all pages are just one level down from the menu. The exception will be found in early 2009 when I first got started and tried using a "tree" structure.

Eventually I'll run low on server space and that will revert to random ones and zeros.

Here are the Menu Buttons:

The "Gadsden Flag", designed by Colonel Christopher Gadsden, was the first flag of the U. S. Navy during the Revolutionary War. The choice of a rattlesnake was influenced by earlier use of the rattlesnake symbol by Benjamin Franklin who felt that it was appropriate for many reasons:

 
It is unique to America.
It appears extremely vigilant.
It feeds on the vermin that steal from the hard-working farmer's harvest.
It never initiates an attack except when provoked.
It always warns before attacking.
It never surrenders after attacking.

I have been told that displaying this flag marks me as a violent right-wing militia extremist. Not Guilty. The Wikipedia article on the Gadsden Flag tells the story fairly accurately: of its first use by the American Military, before the Stars and Stripes flag was designed; and its present use by U S Military units subsequent to 9/11.

You will note that I sign some of my notes and comments as "EnemyoftheState". I finally adopted this 'nom-de-guerre' last year (2009) after various parts of our government, including the DHS, branded me a dangerous right-wing extremist because I am a military veteran, a gun-nut because I own firearms, a racist because I am white, an anti-Muslim because I am Christian, an anti-government dissident because I have sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC.