Category: General

Ally has an event at the Fort this weekend. I drove her up Friday to stay the next two nights. We arrived after dark. The moon was bright, the skies clear. Ordinarily, visiting the fort is stepping back into a bustling place where I have so much to do. Tonight it was silence. There was…

Hopefully, a short one. I’ve been accused of reacting quickly to situations. Mostly, this is a result of anticipating different situations and making a plan, long before anything happens. I used to need to walk about a mile from where I parked to the office. This meant I had to carry my briefcase, with “extras”,…

I am reminded of the image showing a US soldier on a hillside with civilians hiding behind him. The caption reads, “The difference is that we ourselves between them and the enemy, they put them between themselves and their enemies.” It was, and is, such a powerful message of the differences between the animals and…

The date was July 24, 1969. The world waited to see the spacecraft to return. They should land in a very accurate area, some of 6 miles by 10 miles Timestamp 1:14:10 The video is 640×480 NTSC, (Never Twice the Same Color). There were multiple US warships in near the splashdown zone. Thousands of men…

Confirmation Bias, another woke pseudo-science? One of the most infuriating things to hear a “journalist” report, is that something is a “dog whistle” for some nefarious think. The idea that when I say, “Peacefully march to the Capitol” the reality is that this is a “dog whistle” to storm the Capitol. The remarkable thing is…

You are scrolling through the cesspool that is social media, and you stumble upon an article with a title of “FEMA refuses access to NC donations.” Your mind goes, “Yeah, FEMA sucks. Just another example of the government ‘helping’.” Why? Because your confirmation bias is at work. What you read matches what you expect to…