Learning from Great Americans, particularly military greats, is something anyone can do. From home, using YouTube. Just pick someone who’s really smart and see what they’ve had to say. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf is an amazing fellow. IQ 168 and one of the greatest commanders of all-time. He addressed West Point Army cadents in May … Read More
Many young people (millennials) have not sucked enough air yet to squeeze in time to watch the 1970 move “Patton.” It won awards for George C. Scott for his phenomenal portrayal. In addition to a haunting soundtrack, and observing how General George S. Patton “channeled” the history of warfare back to Roman times, Patton’s speech … Read More
Since we are getting a “long weekend” seems right to me that we pause for a few minutes and consider why this is a day off. A speech long-ago, by the late senator and Lyndon Johnson’s VP Hubert Humphrey summed it up pretty well. It’s worth a listen. A man from an earlier America – … Read More
As we await the Case-Shiller Housing report in a few minutes (come back for that, right?) most of the news flow today is mild and boring. As it should be just ahead of a long holiday weekend. So much so that we will ultra-compress our thoughts because you’re probably busy stacking chips and beer ahead … Read More
Tomorrow, our deep “Sunday Think: Does Food Influence Language.” Today, as a little grist for the mental mill, we offer the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Because he was the first president in U.S. history to size-up the growing threat of a “military-industrial” complex. A cup of coffee and ready for 16-minutes worth? … Read More
This time of the year, millions of Americans take some time off. One of the most popular ways to do this is by taking a ‘recreational vehicle’ and going somewhere. But few people realize that to a large extent, RV’s had theirs roots in the original build-out of America. The February 1905 editions of Popular … Read More
There are a dozen, or more, “kits” that we have around because we are so far from “civilization.” In our case, that’s a town of 20,000 and almost a half-hour drive, at that. As a result, we are more than “preppers” in the conventional sense; we are almost our own little shopping center. That said, … Read More
Tons of ham radio operators will be planning for your Hard Grid Down (HGD) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) laced future this coming weekend with something called Field Day. Sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (https://arrl.org) the event had its roots in 1933 when a bunch of hams decided to “take to the field” with … Read More
Got to say, with the unrelenting censorship of views on a certain large social(ist) media platform, a lot of moderately conservative types to conservative liberal types can be found here freely discussing a lot of interesting topics. Invasion by Mexico, them wanting states back (Revolcion 3.0) and the ICE dumpings in cities that are far … Read More
Now and then I get into conversations with my son about his next visit down here…which may come during summer, but hopefully September after the heat breaks. The reason? It will be a fine time to work on a couple of his “500-hour skills.” You see, he’s a prepper/survival-type, too. Many people don’t realize it, … Read More
While I wasn’t going to write (free) columns on Wednesday, I just had to give some high praise to Microsoft on the recent update to Win-10 v. 1903 which was released a couple of weeks back. It’s stable, love the new features, but there are also a couple of install snags that we ran into … Read More
“The secret to effective time management is learning to “pre-live” your Life.” Recently, in one of our comment section remarks, a reader asked if I would give a short summary of my personal time management approach because I seem to get so much done. You may not like some of what follows because it’s not how … Read More
Been a while since we’ve had the morning cuppa Joe and just “went over a few things…” The Best Anti-Aging Medicine: It may be your self-image. Elaine and I don’t spend much time with people our age. With a few notable exceptions, when most people hit their 70’s they “couch out” and turn into … Read More