[August 5, 2026] I didn’t give him much notice until he chased me home one day. My Mom had given me the proper warning, “watch out for that mangy dog.” Rabies was real, although looking back, I don’t think he had the disease. I loved dogs then, and I love them more today, perhaps because I’m less busy,… Read More »
[August 4, 2026] It was a bad day. I’d been caught chewing gum by our Drill Sergeant while I was in Advanced Individual Training, U.S. Army at Fort Gordon, GA, sometime in late 1974. My punishment, euphemistically called “reinforcement training” was cleaning the urinals in the men’s barracks … with a toothbrush. I was a Private (E-1), the… Read More »
[August 3, 2026] A recent question being asked that strikes hard at American values is whether NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani should attend the city’s upcoming 9/11 ceremony. The answer is easy. Yes, he should attend, and perhaps not for the more obvious reasons. Relatives of 9/11 victims are rightly “pissed” that he wants to attend, and yet he… Read More »
[August 2, 2026] I found Prof. Jordan Peterson’s advice to be insightful in a snippet of a lecture he gave called “You Betrayed the Grandfather You Were Going to Be.” In his video, he begins with discussing the pattern of attitudes toward women and sex. One of these patterns is characterized by preference for so-called short-term mating opportunities;… Read More »
[August 1, 2026] The memoir of John Lewis Barkley was first published in 1930 as No Hard Feelings! (the title chosen by the publisher from an anecdote in the book). Barkley received the Medal of Honor for heroism during World War I, but we know little of him; and that is unfortunate for this hero. In his book,… Read More »