Granddaughter Letters

By | February 5, 2024

Letters to My Granddaughter, Epilogue [November 20, 2024]  Here is some good news. That skinny small-town boy from the Deep South – and born on the bayou (like the 1969 CCR song) – turned out okay. I would marry and have two children; the happiest days of my life were their birth and their growing up. Nothing is… Read More »

Finding a $5 Dollar Bill

By | September 30, 2023

[September 30, 2023]  I was only six years old, living in a poor area of Louisiana where money was scarce, and you were rich if you had a spare dollar.  Walking along with my best friend Wilson, we came upon a $5 Dollar bill lying in the street.  “Lookie thar, Douglas, thar’s a Lincoln just sittin’ without nobody… Read More »

My Blog’s 10th Anniversary

By | September 3, 2023

[September 3, 2023]  I started this Blog precisely 10 years ago, shortly after receiving notice from the General Officer Management Office (GOMO) that I would be retiring from the U.S. Army the following May of 2014.  Like everybody at senior rank, I thought I had many more years in me.  I was indeed popular among Soldiers, I had… Read More »

Why Dads Should Be Dangerous

By | September 1, 2023

[September 1, 2023]  Nick Freitas has some common sense commentary on child predators and is brutally clear that the best way to protect children from them is with strong, capable, dangerous fathers.  I like a recent YouTube video (5:27 minutes, link here) where he talks about this.  Last month, I wrote about child predator Jack Reynolds, advising on… Read More »

Incompetence and the Maui Fire

By | August 20, 2023

[August 20, 2023] Investigations into what caused the apocalyptic blazes on parts of Maui will continue for years and, to no one’s surprise, the outcome will be unsatisfactory.  I’ve often written that when leaders are incompetent, bad things happen.  Unfortunately, early information from the Maui fire suggests an unusually high degree of government incompetence that made things much… Read More »

Dr. Fauci Lies Again

By | April 26, 2023

[April 26, 2023]  It has become increasingly clear that the primary contributor to the draconian COVID lockdowns was due to advice given by Dr. Anthony Fauci.  Since his retirement, Dr. Fauci has been active in trying to debase that fact publicly.  He does so again in a recent interview with a reporter from the New York Times Magazine… Read More »