How to Fail:  Bud Light Beer

[May 1, 2023]  The recent debacle over Bud Light’s leadership failure to address the growing controversy over their pandering to the woke and transgender crowd will be studied in college marketing courses for the next century.  This is a classic case of how to fail. A new country-themed Bud Light commercial released Thursday is a throwback to their… Read More »

A New VA Scandal: Reducing Veteran Health Care

By | April 30, 2023

[April 30, 2023] How America cares for its military veterans and their physical and mental health tells us much about the moral standing of America itself.  President Lincoln said it best, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Administration is the institution we fund to carry out that moral need.  Unfortunately, today, we see the VA regressing to old… Read More »

This Day in Pictures

By | April 29, 2023

[April 29, 2023]  I thought about writing about how my dog Bella is such a lovely girl but, alas, I figured having a few memes our might be better on a Saturday morning.  As the Bud Light boycott continues, I will be sitting back and eating popcorn and smiling.

Cow Rampage: a High School Prank

By | April 28, 2023

[April 28, 2023]  There is always room for a bit of light-hearted, cheery news.  The headlines blared, “Cow Rampages Through Illinois Neighborhood In Alleged Senior Prank Gone Wrong.”  From what I heard, the kids also bought a pig and some chickens with the plan to release them in their school hallways.  This is an old prank idea, dressed… Read More »

Military Helicopters and Good Ideas

By | April 27, 2023

[April 27, 2023]  In 2004, in late August and on a brutally scorching day, my Engineers stood smiling after completing another helicopter-landing pad on Victory Base, Baghdad, Iraq.  We were eight months into our combat deployment, and we were experienced professionals, skilled, in high demand, and the very best at what we did.  One of my NCOs suggested… Read More »

Dr. Fauci Lies Again

By | April 26, 2023

[April 26, 2023]  It has become increasingly clear that the primary contributor to the draconian COVID lockdowns was due to advice given by Dr. Anthony Fauci.  Since his retirement, Dr. Fauci has been active in trying to debase that fact publicly.  He does so again in a recent interview with a reporter from the New York Times Magazine… Read More »

Operation Vengeance: an Impossible Mission

By | April 25, 2023

[April 25, 2023]  Eighty years ago, one of the most daring missions of WW2 took place that would have far-reaching implications, even today.  In April 1943, American P-38s carried out a near-suicidal mission to intercept and kill Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor raid.  This was Operation Vengeance. The story of how the U.S. military… Read More »

Soldiers without Fathers

By | April 24, 2023

[April 24, 2023]  The privilege to serve in the military is an opportunity to work with America’s best citizens.  They come from all walks of society, backgrounds, education levels, and subcultures, a very diverse mix of upbringing, intellectual capability, and maturity.  I saw that Soldiers who grew up without fathers stood out from rest and that this phenomenon… Read More »