Riding the Rails

By | November 19, 2025

[November 19, 2025] David and I were 16 when he decided to hop onto a train and head out West; to ride the rails. We had been infected by the cowboy spirit, “Head West, young man, head West.” Just before our junior year in high school, we were exploring the abandoned towns that lay far out into the… Read More »

Mexico Protests & Failed Leadership

By | November 18, 2025

[November 18, 2025]  Gen Z protests in Mexico have broken out, presumably, in response to government corruption and the drug cartels.  I think it’s fair to state that the Federal government of Mexico has always been corrupt to its core; the epitome of failed leadership.  The rise of drug cartels have fueled this corruption to a point that… Read More »

Van Camping: the Adventure

By | November 15, 2025

[November 15, 2025]  I’m of the belief that all humans crave adventure.  I have no way of proving that, but looking at the history of mankind, we can see where this “adventure spirit” to explore and find new pathways into the unknown was driven by those most infected with the call for adventure.  Today, I’m writing about Van… Read More »

Scott Bessent: Economic Hero

By | November 14, 2025

[November 14, 2025]  Occasionally someone comes along at the highest political level that knows what he’s doing and uses those accumulated skills quite effectively.  Scott Bessent is the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and probably one of the smartest economic advisors to a U.S. President that America has ever had.  For that reason alone, I see him as… Read More »

My Top 20 War Movies

By | November 13, 2025

[November 13, 2025]  Occasionally it’s good to take a break from the challenge of the study of leadership.  Today I’m providing my personal list of favorite war movies … those that made an impression on me when I saw them.  Yes, they’re English movies so the list doesn’t include some great, non-English movies. For some reason these movies… Read More »

Veterans’ Day by Joe Griffies

By | November 11, 2025

[November 11, 2025]  Hello General Satterfield, Here we are again celebrating Veterans Day. Sir, this will be my 57th year being home from Vietnam. I guess you can say I am one of the lucky ones. General , even though Veterans Day is a day to remember and thank our living Veterans, it is a day that I… Read More »

We Hire and Admit Morons

By | November 10, 2025

[November 10, 2025] In a brutally honest email sent to the “Penn community” declared that the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education is a “dogshit and elitist institution” and that they “hire and admit morons.”  As to be expected in damage control, Penn administrators immediately labeled the email as fraudulent. I got a laugh out of it.… Read More »