Author Archives: Douglas R. Satterfield
[December 14, 2022] Finding someone in your life who can push you to your limits, someone who you can contend with and help you be a better person, is a true adventure. If you find that person, hold onto them because they will make you more than you ever thought possible. If you can also find someone you… Read More »
[December 12, 2022] Men see women as perfection for the feminine ideal. We read this in the Tom Sawyer story. Tom Sawyer is about 12 years old and still hangs out with his friends like Huck Finn. And at one point, a girl moves across the street; her name is Becky. She comes outside, and Tom Sawyer is… Read More »
[December 11, 2022] Recently, Dr. Jordan Peterson got into hot water with social media commentators throughout the West regarding a plus-sized model on the cover of Sports Illustrated writing “Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.” The topic today is not about beauty but about fat people, or more precisely, obese… Read More »
[December 10, 2022] What’s happening between China and Taiwan in light of the Ukraine War? A lot of senior policy folks in the U.S. government were openly discussing that the master geopolitical plan in the East would be that Russia would go first for Ukraine, and China would go for Taiwan, more or less at the same time… Read More »
[December 9, 2022] If you desire to pursue something meaningful in your life, and you should, then you should also be afraid of taking risks associated with that difficult, meaningful pursuit. But you should be more afraid of staying where you are, especially if that makes you miserable. There is a price to pay for sitting where you… Read More »
[December 8, 2022] Remember what happens in the Pinocchio movie when Pinocchio goes to Pleasure Island; a place where impulsive pleasures can be had at a moment’s notice. What Pinocchio discovers, along with Jiminy Cricket, is that masked totalitarians run Pleasure Island, dressed all in black. They’re turning the children into braying jackasses, depriving them of their voice,… Read More »
[December 7, 2022] Can we learn anything from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on this date 81 years ago? Yes, we can, but it’s a lesson Americans never seem to take to heart. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy bombed the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It was one of the most successful… Read More »
[December 5, 2022] Let’s begin with something counterintuitive about the secret to a successful marriage. And that is “happiness.” Happiness is not the goal of a marriage and, in fact, it is a low goal if any at all. If you judge the success of your marriage on your personal happiness, then that raises the question, “What do… Read More »
[December 4, 2022] You should be a free speech advocate, and I’ll tell you why in this article. Encourage people to say what they believe to be true, as opposed to saying just anything. And that is your moral obligation to do so. True speech is impossible without free speech because we are not that good at thinking. … Read More »
[December 3, 2022] In the decades of military service, I was often asked by Soldiers, How do I become a man? If you lead men in combat, fighting under the most arduous and dangerous conditions, that question is the last thing a typical person would expect. I will give an outline of my responses. The first time a… Read More »