Since I’m an expert on political discourse I’ll tell you how I became such an expert After reading this, see if the same criteria applies to others who claim expertise in legitimate political discourse. For me, it all started in second grade. Experts, believable experts, need early references.
MALE BONDING WITH FRAGILE EGOS
January 18, 2022 by
Male bonding isn’t about two guys becoming Blood Brothers. Let’s leave the knives out of it. No cuts and pressing wounds together with intense eye contact needed here. What is needed, though, is an element of trust. Not ‘trust’ with money or wives involved, but that other trust: Trust in doing what’s right. Lose that […]
PERSONAL IDENTITY: WHAT TO LOOK FOR
November 3, 2021 by
Personal identity starts the moment you meet someone. You’ve got yours, they’ve got theirs, and the games begin. Maybe you go first and talk about the love you feel for where you grew up. Or they go first and talk about why they left where they grew up as fast as they could. After that […]
THOUGHT CONTROL? FIRST FIND A BRAIN
September 1, 2021 by
Thought control is an accusation slung by those who need you to agree with them. Based on their outlook and attitude, if you don’t agree it’s because you’ve been brainwashed. Like that’s a bad thing all the time. If you join the Army you get a good wash, learn to help others, at the same […]
CONSISTENCY HABIT? WHAT YOU DO IS WHO YOU ARE
August 21, 2021 by
If a consistency habit sounds like one step away from living in a rut, then you’re doing it wrong. A rut, or living in a rut, is the hole you’ve been digging. When life said ‘Dig in’ you started and never stopped, never asked why. That’s a rut you’ve been plowing, my friends, and I’m […]
NEW EXPERTS CHECK IN WITH MEDICAL AND MILITARY WIZARDRY
August 18, 2021 by
New experts are coming out of the woodwork, crawling out from under rocks, and they need to be heard. Luckily for the rest of us we have social media to learn from them. After enough twitter and Facebook scrolling, I’m ready for class, ready to discover new insights from these evolving geniuses. You know I […]
FATHER TIME ON THE MARCH EVERY DAY, EVEN FATHER’S DAY
June 19, 2021 by
When I was a kid, Father Time looked like my Grandpa. It helped that my Grandpa looked like President “I Like Ike” Eisenhower. I was six years old in 1960 when things changed. The new president looked more my dad’s age. The big job went from the Supreme Allied Commander Europe five star Army general, […]
SOLDIER ADVICE: WHEN TO STAY, WHEN TO GO
March 2, 2021 by
Soldier advice usually comes from one place in the beginning. Can you guess where? If you said “recruiter,” you are correct. First they make an alluring argument for signing up. College money, healthcare, clothing, living expenses, food allowance. It’s all right here for a military career. If that hook isn’t sunk deep enough, Drill Sergeants […]
FREEDOM SINGS: JAILHOUSE ROCK FROM CELL BLOCK D
January 12, 2021 by
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.” Was Kris Kristofferson right? Nothing left to lose is the same as freedom? Ask someone who lost everything in 1969 what they think. It might go like this: “How did you lose everything?” “I got drafted.” “Drafted?” “Yes. Conscripted into the United States Army.” “I […]
ARMY PEOPLE: GUYS YOU MEET AT THE START
November 11, 2020 by
No one who served forgets the people, in my case Army people, they meet in the beginning. Fellow enlistees ranged from age seventeen to thirty five years old. Some of the Army people were older than the Drill Sergeants. That was a surprise. That some of the Drills looked like they could be doing other […]
