[November 9, 2022] Mines! We all have fear; small, large, immobilizing, ulcer-inducing, and generally unpleasant at best. One of my fears has been explosive mines. Originally an Infantryman and then a Combat Engineer, mines were always part of my mission, mostly not to step on one. Mines scare me. Here is what I learned from explosive mines. “You… Read More »
[November 3, 2022] There’s the claim that the West is an oppressive patriarchy. And that is partly true. The problem with the claim is that it’s not just an oppressive patriarchy, and there’s a big difference between something being “completely” something and something being “partly” something. One of the things we might point out is that you can… Read More »
[November 2, 2022] Andrew Kull, a distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, is a distinguished author. In 1998 he published one of my favorite “intellectual” books of the 90s, The Color-Blind Constitution, which can be appropriately labeled a terrific book. In his book, he lays out the history of how Americans… Read More »
[November 1, 2022] Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard historic arguments on several legal challenges to anti-Asian race discrimination by Harvard and the University of North Carolina. What is most interesting was many “good people” took the position and are standing with those universities in support of policies that support race discrimination. That may be a bit of… Read More »
[October 31, 2022] Yes, that’s right, Twitter takes a birdbath, meaning a cleansing is underway within that bloated, woke, anti-free speech company. Elon Musk has officially taken over control of Twitter, ending months of legal disputes. He is bringing significant changes, which began with the immediate firing of Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal, Vijaya Gadde, and Ned Segal (Twitter’s… Read More »
[October 30, 2022] If you plan to talk about something, you must know a lot about your topic. And, no, this is not common sense. You need to know at least three or four times as much as you’re going to speak about it. This means doing the proper background research (and sometimes analysis). You must know what… Read More »
[October 29, 2022] There’s something to be said for virtue and truth. One of the things I’ve noticed about folks who are phenomenally successful; they do everything they can to live a truthful life, and you can get a long way in life by being honest. There are significant differences in intelligence among different people. If you go… Read More »
[October 28, 2022] There are always people out there who are doing far better than you on pretty much anything you want to imagine. That came home to me during my U.S. Army training, the first day of taking a physical fitness test. I ran a two-mile course and finished in under 11 minutes (which is an excellent… Read More »
[October 27, 2022] Dr. Jordan Peterson is a psychologist who often speaks on the best way to make you a better person. He does that often with insights into the patterns of behavior we humans possess. He often speaks on the role men and women play in sexual selection. An older video shows him discussing how women select… Read More »
[October 26, 2022] If you have real friends and you tell them bad news, they’re actually sad for you. You can tell them, and they will listen. They will help you take the pain, will not tell you about some worse thing that happened to them defensively, or won’t secretly be happy that you got knocked down. They… Read More »