Author Archives: Douglas R. Satterfield
[April 15, 2024] One of the lessons from life is that we must be alert to the beauty in life, for there is little of greater value. Such a statement may seem nonsensical and naïve, but to see beauty for its value is on the same intellectual plane of discriminating between good and evil. This is a form… Read More »
[April 14, 2024] Yesterday, a small group of local volunteers spent the morning repairing the fencing of an old Civil War cemetery. Buried there are veterans of the 25th Regiment Colored Troops and, it is believed, members of their families. Although I wrote about my discovery of the cemetery, its location is at a busy intersection and is… Read More »
[April 13, 2024] A simple question haunts me about receiving advice from rich people – Is their advice actually useful? Elon Musk, a businessman and investor, is one of the wealthiest men in the world and is known to be highly successful in those areas he chooses to operate. Musk was interviewed by Lex Fridman, who asked him… Read More »
[April 12, 2024] A week ago, I wrote about R.K. Rowling’s potential arrest for telling the truth about the “trans craze.” Now that Scotland’s Hate Crime Law is in effect for one week, there are over 8,000 complaints submitted, and the police force is in an uproar. But what is most ironic is that many of these complaints… Read More »
[April 11, 2024] In the early 1960s, the American economy was not doing as well as one might believe. Things were tough; the baby boomer generation was everywhere, and although jobs were plentiful, they paid almost nothing. For a kid looking to earn some money, forget it. We had to compete with adults looking for work, and potential… Read More »
[April 10, 2024] I was behind on the count at bat with two strikes and zero balls. It was also the bottom of the ninth inning, and my team was behind one run with my teammate at the hot corner, third base and potentially the tying run. On my Little League baseball team, we called this being in… Read More »
[April 9, 2024] Ten years ago, I wrote about the failure of the Obama Administration to protect the fledgling democratic movement in Ukraine from being destroyed by the Russian war machine. I wrote, “Since the U.S. had no strategy, policy, or leadership on the Ukraine War, that … we are accepting [read violent] behavior” by Russia (see link).… Read More »
[April 8, 2024] Finally! Springtime is here, and the trees are budding, the flowers are blooming, and the pollen is putting my sinuses in overdrive. Yet, I must say that I do love spring, for it represents hope, and it is hope that allows us to hang onto the future for our families. There is always a need… Read More »
[April 7, 2024] I was recently asked to give a sermon to a church congregation near my home. This is one thing I’ve never done: give a religious sermon. What follows is my message, and although the following is in narrative form, I only used this as a notes. I think it is better to speak by looking… Read More »
[April 6, 2024] Yesterday, I was at a local car dealership getting repairs completed on my car and sat in the waiting room where the television was on the CNN channel. Jake Tapper interviewed ex-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and socialist Bernie Sanders. Tapper was questioning both, Bernie followed Leon, about President Biden’s turnaround, no longer supporting Israel… Read More »