Wow, has it really been since December that I’ve posted anything?  Since my last post I started a new job in a new field in a new state, so things have been a bit busy. It’s been a real lesson in how well my basic leadership philosophy would stand up to some serious tests and […]

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit is my hero lately.  He gets credit for pointing to this post by Roger Kimball expressing the same contempt I’ve long had for the TSA.  Seriously, folks, this is America; is the TSA really how far we’ve fallen?

Another one from Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.  Amazing stuff.

Of the many places my wife and I have lived, we agree Buffalo is our favorite, barring each of our hometowns. Our friend Mark sent a link to this video, which captures almost everything I love and miss about that dear town.

John Derbyshire’s “Steel and Fire and Stone” was one of the best things written that day.

I’ve had a couple of acknowledgements of the Navy SEALs here lately.  And they deserve it. But while they go through the torturous BUD/S training, culminating in the all-but-humanly-impossible trials of Hell Week, yesterday I discovered an even greater challenge. It was the combination of getting up early with Bug, putting together and later launching […]

This is a great article about who we should hold up as examples for our kids.  Kudos to the SEALs on a job well done.

Memphis radio personality John “Bad Dog” McCormack passed away this week after a battle with leukemia. I remember when he first started working with longtime “Wake-Up Crew” partners Tim Spencer and Bev Hart.  I was living and working in Mississippi, and Sweet Miss ViVi was still finishing school in Memphis, so I spent a lot of weekends traveling […]

Sunday was Bug’s third birthday. As Sweet Miss ViVi said in her Facebook post, he’s been a “whirling ray of sunshine” ever since that day. But it was a rocky road getting to that day.  One of the worst days in my life was the one early in December 2007 when my wife called on […]

I take two things away from this article: 1.  Al Gore is a big bloated gasbag. 2.  We all had best be studying up on Time of the Great Freeze.