I’m a big believer in the notion that experience matters. A wise person draws on what they’ve seen and done before to help guide them as new situations arise. This is why I, for example, don’t do complicated thoracic surgery. You see, I have no medical training, and have never…

I’m old enough to remember conservative icon William F. Buckley. Apparently, I’m apparently also old enough to use products like “Doan’s Pills” and “Ensure Vitality Booster”, on account of my vitality being unboosted. But that’s the subject of another article. Buckley was the founder and chief editor of National Review…

The results of mid-term elections in America generally track the national mood. Certainly, each race involves individual candidates of greater or lesser degrees of sanity, presentability, committment to personal hygiene, etc. And the way things play out in individual races does matter to some extent. The results of a close…

Given the, what I’m going to euphemistically call, “unsettled” political environment we are currently inhabiting, I’ve found myself writing some very dark stuff recently. Not that articles like “Why Nuclear Apocaplyspe is Inevitable” or, “Your Own Family Will Slaughter You in the Coming Civil War” didn’t have their moments of…

I write an article for Medium.com about once a week. Believe it or not, I actually get paid for each article I write. How much I get paid depends on some indecipherable algorithm that I can’t begin to figure out. Sometimes 400 people will read an article and I’ll get…

Rick Perry was the former governor of Texas and Secretary of some Agency whose name neither he nor I can remember. Oops! Mr. Perry was never known as a great thinker. If you’ve recently bought a book entitled “Plato, Socrates, Rick Perry and other Great Thinkers”, you’ve made a bad…

A recent national poll showed that 60% of Americans think that there will be a new civil war within the next ten years. That is stunning. …

For much of my 20s, student loans were among my biggest problems. Yes, yes, along with my personality and wardrobe selection. No need to write to me!. You see, I went to four years of college and three years of law school. That’s almost seven years of higher education. (Hey…

As I begin this article, I honestly don’t know which side I will come down on. That is not typical for me. For better or worse, I usually sit down to write with a clear point of view. “Cannibalism is good”. “Leaving the tails on shrimp is bad”. “I like…