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America's or American culture's great foundational problem is that our ancestors elevated ideas to sovereign status, forcing us since then to reconcile them with reality after the fact. The great examples being that we stated out of the gate that we hold certain truths to be self-evident, chief among them that we are free and… Continue reading Ideas must be subordinate to common sense →

It is not just We the People here in America in this age that tend to stick our head in the sand or walk straight ahead, eyes cast down with blinders on. This is just the way humans have always been and always will be. We like being comfortable, and once we get into a… Continue reading Corporal Punishment, Exile, and Penal Colonies →

I know a young man who has recently graduated from college having completed a rigorous course of study in engineering. During college he had interned at a national transportation company which has now offered him a full-time job making what, in my fifty-six-year-old eyes, is an astonishing amount of money right out of the gate.… Continue reading Rules for a young man when selecting a wife →

I love going to the movie theatre. I likely always will as the pleasure that I derive from it is rooted in my childhood. I even remember seeing the first Star Wars when it was released in 1977. As well as the now in hindsight shameful Porky's in 1981, and in high school Fast Times… Continue reading Why so many movies today are yawners or just plain bad →

I was born in 1966 here in Paris, Tennessee, in our local general hospital, which I think was established in 1953. Both my parents were born at home in 1938 which of course was the norm prior to the coming of these new modern hospitals.   So, the powers-that-be at the Henry County Medical Center (where… Continue reading Babies will no longer be born in Henry County, Tennessee →

In human affairs, if there is one decision that the great majority of us make that stands head and shoulders above all others in consequence, it is who we will choose to marry. Indeed marriage will likely set off a chain of events that will be felt for a lifetime and generations to come. Any… Continue reading Time to return to arranged marriages →

The apparent collapse of the Bud Light brand has been truly delightful to watch and I hope will be viewed a few years from now as the woke left's Stalingrad. Or rather one of them. It has certainly given the good 'ol boys of America a hard target at which to strike and express their… Continue reading Bud Light and the value of one’s reputation →

Like many I have been astonished at the fall of San Francisco and the apparent decisive role homelessness has played. Lest this fate should befall my own community, I want to offer a few thoughts and a guideline on how everyone should behave in public, including the homeless, vagrants, and even, as we used to… Continue reading Being homeless, a vagrant, or out of your mind is no excuse. →

Ukraine has failed to defend its borders since it gained independence in 1991, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. It is now losing its war with Russia to reestablish them if it has not already lost. In hindsight this appears to have been both inevitable and equally foreseeable.  Since independence the Ukrainians appear… Continue reading Russia has won. The world is changing once again. Time to negotiate. →

The Prussians (a German people) were a people that are by and large no more because once uprooted from your ancestral homeland you cease to be that people. Just like the British that settled the American South became Southerners (or today just plain Americans) and ceased to be English or Scottish or Scotch-Irish. And peoples… Continue reading America has never fought a war the Southern man did not approve →