Category Archives: Values

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 »

There’s No Decent Place to Stand in a Massacre

By | November 7, 2025

[November 7, 2025] Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen wrote the lyrics to his song “The Captain,” published in 1984. The poem is unsettling and dark. Ultimately, it’s about war, moral ambiguity, and the most difficult choices we must make. In the fourth verse, he begins with, ‘There’s no decent place to stand in a massacre.’ A few weeks ago,… Read More »

The Window I Broke

By | November 6, 2025

[November 6, 2025] Like many boys my age, I wanted to run and hide from the certain butt-whooping I was going to get. I broke a window in my neighbor’s house while throwing a baseball to my good friend Wilson. It was an innocent throw, sailing over Wilson’s head and into the living room window, shattering it. I… Read More »

The 3 Failures of Feminism: Camilla Paglia

By | November 3, 2025

[November 3, 2025]  Since the late 1990s, feminist Dr. Camilla Paglia has been one of the leading critics of feminism.  She sees 3 main failures of modern feminism.  This assertion that Paglia is critical of “modern” feminism stems from her outright rejection  of the victim/oppressor narrative that dominates much of America’s feminist movement. Here are Camilia Paglia’s critique… Read More »

Book Review: Them Before Us

By | November 1, 2025

[November 1, 2025]  As I write this book review, all sorts of little kids are running throughout the local neighborhoods hunting down the best sources of candy treats and showing off their most outrageous outfits.  What a great time of year, especially to those of us who are more comfortable with lower temperatures and less humidity.  Speaking of… Read More »

Just Stop Lying

By | October 31, 2025

[October 31, 2025]  On this Halloween Day (or night), I thought it most appropriate to bring up Dr. Jordan Peterson’s advice on how to live a life that goes well.  He says that to increase the “probability that things will unfold for you properly, is to not lie.”  Yes!  Just stop lying. Halloween is about showing an outer… Read More »