Use these terms if you want your audience to ignore you — How do the most inane phrases get stuck on the tongues of corporate managers, desperate salespeople, and writers? …

The Problem Isn’t Where You Were Thinking A wise friend once told me that when you point at someone, you have four fingers pointing back at you. Higher prices will be around for a little while and while some may blame the President, liberals, China, or nutbag environmentalists, pricing in…

When you have fear itself, the only thing you have is fear. — Politics is Hollywood for the ugly. This was my first attempt to dissuade Stacy, my wife of 32 years, from running for office in November 2020. “So what is it you are saying to me?” “I’m saying you don’t belong in politics.” That response didn’t go as planned and if…

Why we may never figure this out. — From restaurants to factories to teachers, everywhere you look the ubiquitous sign is hung — “HELP WANTED!” Will this fallout ever end? Will it get better anytime soon? Buckle up, my friend. We are going for a ride. The labor shortage is born from at least 1,000 reasons but this…

It is going to hurt. But who? — We need another world crisis. We have a war that is slaughtering civilians and panicking the entire energy market, a world on fire from Climate Change, and half the United States is so delusional that they can only digest their news in memes. Armed with this information, Elon Musk woke…

We act like we don’t need them. — I have lived in this spot for 75 years and without hesitation can state that there is nothing like it in the entire world. …

This is what it looks like. Just pick one. — We have made a game of war. It is a theme that is pervasive in movies, sports terminology, video games, and even cultural disagreements. Conflict and consequences are trivialized so often that unless a missile directly strikes your home, it is confined to an event that is imagined or distant…

A chance to make it right — One of the poorest areas in the entire United States of America is Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Many of our most bountiful lands are part of the jewel of the world — our National Park system. These places share a commonality— they involved the stripping of land, rights…