My Pops recounted a funny story about one of his SFOD-D buds who was in charge of an entire province in Afghanistan. A US Army master sergeant tellin’ everyone what’s what, handing out parking passes to high-ranking officials, and making the locals play nice with the invading soldiers from 10 different countries. Continue reading Ahhhh, ‘Twas the Fall of 1944 and Nat Geo Ran Romania
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THE TWO MOST HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL BOOKS ON POWER
I love these two books on POWER. Pops had me read both when I was a child, and they changed my life and attitude forever, not to mention schooled me on how best to conduct myself in. Written back in the day, their firm words still resonate today, right down to your DNA, as Pops says. Continue reading THE TWO MOST HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL BOOKS ON POWER
Mother Nature Writes the Final Page of Our Story In Stone
How often do you read an ancient or rare book that multisparks in your mind, creating a jungle fire that consumes you for weeks with its magnificence of design, thought and purpose?
Like a tornado, this one blew me up, down and away, and I landed gently in a field of wonder:
BENEFICENCE OF DESIGN: In The Problem Of Evil, Vindicated By The Law Of Causation In The Physical Construction Of Matter Continue reading Mother Nature Writes the Final Page of Our Story In Stone
CIA’s Funniest Home Quotes and Quips from Performance Appraisal Reports
2014 was the Year of The Great Purge for the CIA, and I don’t mean Culinary Institute of America. They dumped thousands of documents for all good Americans to see and laugh at.
Two docs stood out from the miasma of chaff and ash. The internally published Studies in Intelligence: A collection of articles on the historical, operational, doctrinal, and theoretical aspects of intelligence featured two volumes of “Par-Faits and Other Faits.” Continue reading CIA’s Funniest Home Quotes and Quips from Performance Appraisal Reports
Anatomy of Bumbling Bee Chris Lischewski: How Corporate Arrogance, Malfeasance, Miscalculation and Conspiracy Led to the Worldwide Tuna Tragedy
My Pops loves tuna. Guess he needs his minimum daily requirement of mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and various delicious toxins (pesticides, flame retardants and PCBs, just to name a few). Continue reading Anatomy of Bumbling Bee Chris Lischewski: How Corporate Arrogance, Malfeasance, Miscalculation and Conspiracy Led to the Worldwide Tuna Tragedy
Women and Children Should Be On The IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species
Women and children are the most neglected members of the human species, and should be on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Every day, thousands of women and children around the world are abused and neglected, maimed and murdered. Continue reading Women and Children Should Be On The IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species
Conventional Query Letters to Magazine Editors are Boring as Crap: A DYNAMIC Query Letter à la Tripsy
Conventional query letters to magazine editors are boring as crap. A great query should reflect who you are, not what convention tells you to be. My philosophy is simple: your rules do not apply to me; I have my own.
Don’t You Dare Call Me a Millennial
I’m in my early 20s, yes. A girl. Stand at an altitude of 6 feet, high enough to see over most men’s heads, but short enough to avoid low-slung obstacles. At 170 pounds, with medium bones and an athletic figure, guys don’t mess with me, mostly cuz they’ve seen me at MMA training sessions. Continue reading Don’t You Dare Call Me a Millennial
A Silly Paradox of Adulthood: Retirement
We spend two-thirds of our lives learning massive amounts of information, taking in vast knowledge, experiencing great things and developing wonderful memories.
Then, just at the point of “knowing it all,” we do something stupid: we quit (read: retire). Continue reading A Silly Paradox of Adulthood: Retirement
Nicotine Is Not Addictive. Yes, Really
You’re at work, it’s the middle of the day, and you want to crawl into bed and siesta for hours, even though you still have five pages left to write. There’s just no energy left, much less the concentration you need to conjure up 1,500 additional words. What to do?
A better question would be: What brought you to this dire state of affairs? Lack of daily exercise? Poor diet and overall health? Continue reading Nicotine Is Not Addictive. Yes, Really