When she was young, Mercedes came home upset from school. She couldn’t understand why a girl she thought to be her friend would choose to go out of her way to not be nice, and even disallow her from spending time with another group of friends. To her way of thinking, everyone should be nice …
Author Archives: Robert Wyatt
Parting Impressions
As the President Donald J. Trump prepares to leave the White House, I am making this post so it will show back up as a future memory on my timeline. This isn’t a political dispute. I am genuinely curious what the next 4 years will bring: Today is the Biden/Harris Inauguration. • Gas is currently …
Impeaching the President Part II
It seems to day the Democrat controlled house of representatives chose to impeach President Trump for the 2nd time (and only the 1st) time in history. That they did this for political theatre is rather apparent. A person listening to the speech he gave on that day cannot ethically come away from it with the …
The Lonely Battlefield
“Are you willing to die on a lonely battlefield defending this position?” The sentence the kids have hear almost as much as “choices have consequences” in our home. In this day of instant access and instant outrage, it seems we have created a world in which we must fight every battle and right every wrong …
Do The Things That Make The Best Stories
Speaking of scouting, many people will point to the visable when referencing the benefits. Camping, cooking, pioneering all teach young men valuable skills. However, the most unspoken yet biggest benefits scouting had to offer young men was a managed pressure cooker. Through scouting, boys are put into situations that push them beyond their comfort zones. …
The Woke purge
Pasting the article in case the link gets lost. But this is the tragic end to what is happening right now. https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/09/the-woke-purge/ Cancel culture doesn’t exist, they say. And yet with the flick of a switch, billionaire capitalists voted for by precisely nobody have just silenced a man who is still the democratically elected president …
Social media meltdown
As I write this, the socials are actively going after Donald trump. Facebook and Twitter have banned him. Apple and Google are attacking Parler by removing them from their App Store. I’m trying to deactivate my Facebook account but can’t because doing so would kills bunch of groups I manage. I may just let the …
Removing the Socials
There is an odd reality we live in today. People like no other time in history have been able to self select a bubble of confirmation bias from which they live and gather all information. It is then fueled by a company who’s sole purpose is to use them to sell advertising. And therefore develop …
Liberty or Servitude
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our …
The pencil
This pencil is probably worth half a billion dollars. It was my fathers that he used over the course of his career. Where most in architecture have converted to computers and CAD, he and his partner still drew everything out by hand. Over the course of 34 years together, they designed thousands of custom homes. …