capitalistic socialism

I began this entry as a response to a question concerning my response to the well thought out essay, ‘Of Liberality and Parsimony’ by Isaac Riddle, my brilliant little brother. The essay dealt with the underlying economic ideas of the modern liberal. He aptly describes the fallacies of the liberal economic ideas while [...]

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life goes on

Life goes on.
An ambiguous start to an entry, but there is no other way to put it. After the shock of losing our friend, life is stumbling back to normal at God’s resort, Camp Buehring. Flights are launching, training resuming, time marching. And so it goes. This world, if [...]

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definitive statements are dumb

Yesterday I had one of those unfortunate reality slaps. One of the ‘oh, I’m an idiot’ moments. A group of us were driving back to base and I made one of my ridiculous blanket statements. Of course it lacked merit. Of course it lacked backing. Of course it represented only my opinion. Of course it [...]

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heritage and the professional militia

Two weeks have past. A new post is past due.
I have several thoughts I plan on expounding upon soon. But first, I would like to begin a series I’m going to call ‘Hard Truths’. In fact, as we are all learning, other then The Truth, everything else tends to be well though out opinions and [...]

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went to war and all i got was this lousy tee-shirt

I wish I had a slogan such as Garrison Keeler’s intro to the Prairie Home Companion…’It’s been a slow week in Lake Wobegon’. A catch phrase always comes in handy. Its the little bit of nothing somehow signifying so much. Perhaps I’ll try a few out in the upcoming weeks. Until then you simply have [...]

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