John Bolton who? Editorial, June 12, 2020
John Bolton who? This guy, resigning from the White House in September of last year, was going to be a lightning rod of booming revelation, with respect to Trump’s wrongdoings. Oh, I forgot, there was the book he was writing. He had to keep silent while getting...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #76
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #76 June 12, 2020 The Coronavirus is very real. Covid-19 is right here, all over the place and it’s killing a lot of people, but it also came along and was used, and continues to be used, as an...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #75
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #75 June 12, 2020 Of course, the virus is back? What were you thinking? The racial protests are quieting and there’s no civil disturbance violence or looting to be covered. The mass media does not simply sit there...
The Duke, Part Fifteen
The Duke Part XV How had the cop known that Jimmy was a military brat, and therefore needed transport to the Naval Hospital at Tripler instead of Queens or some place closer and private? Why was the Army coming? And why were the cops acting so weird, like a...
It Is All About the Money…
All About the Money It is about the money. Where did it come from? First two trillion, and now three more. The gross revenue from all sources for the country was only 20 trillion. The total taxes collected in 2019 was 3.46 trillion. In 2018 it was 3.22 trillion. Where...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #74
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, and more Reflection #74 1. Trump. 2. The virus. 3.The shut down of the United States. 4.Minneapolis and all major American cities. What’s next? Our system of reporting the ‘news’ has decayed into this...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #73
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #73 Why have all the major news organizations, left, right and in the middle, all concluded that these protests/riots are the fault of one black citizen being murdered in Minnesota…and the general nature...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #72
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #72 June 1, 2020 So, did you think, when I predicted that an ‘ignition point’ would set off the violence, that I was kidding two months ago? You cannot shut down the economy without shutting down,...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #71
Journaling Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #71 May 29, 2020 POLICE WARRIOR TRAINING. What do you get, as a member of a social enforcement team or the team itself, if you decide that your million-strong combination of police agencies has 328,000,000...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #70
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #70 May 29, 2020 I have been writing exactly about what is going on in Minneapolis and other large cities across the U.S. right now. The Floyd George murder. It is not the murder. It is not about the black and...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #69
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #69 May 29, 2020 The testing sites in Wisconsin have fallen on hard times. Nobody is going to be tested anymore. What happened? Only a week ago the few testing sites were overwhelmed by cars lined up and people...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #68
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #68 May 26, 2020 Learning to deal with the depression of alienation. Without understanding the teachings and long, hard and controversial accumulation of social data leading to social conclusions, the...
You are My Sunshine, a Short Story
You are My Sunshine In the nineteen sixties, the existence of a co-ed military high school, where air force uniforms were worn and military representatives came regularly to the school to advise and the lecture was uncommon. Such a school, however, existed on the...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #67
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #67 May 21, 2020 Only the Shadow knows… which is a line lifted from an old television/radio series back from when I was a kid. What is ‘shadowing’ and what does it portend for the coming...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #66
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #66 May 20, 2020 It’s about the money. And how to take advantage of making it in this strangely difficult time across this fractured and brutalized culture. Provide less and charge the same or more....
The Duke, Part Fourteen
THE DUKE Part XIV Jimmy headed the Corvair around the tip of Diamond Head, only slowing in an attempt to avoid deeper runnels of mud that had flowed down from the mountain and across the road, that had only occurred a bit earlier. The mud, if it got on the Spyder’s...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Refelction #65
Journaling Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #65 It begins. The mayor of Milwaukee let slip a little known and even and heretofore undiscussed element about the ‘voluntary quarantine at home’ situation. The word voluntary is always trotted...
Coronavirus (Covid19), Reflection #64
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #65 May 18, 2020 THERE IS NO TOUGH LOVE. There is only love. Training, coaching, modeling, and helping people adjust to difficult or dangerous coming circumstances is not tough love. It is not love at all....
Science and Truth… Editorial, May 18, 2020
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. E.O Wilson There is no ‘Truth’ in Science. There is only a repeat performance of experiences and experiments to confirm that things tested give every...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #63
Journaling the Coronavirus (CIVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #63 May 16, 2020 What about the trillions? Yes, two trillion ($2,000,000,000,000) on the first ‘save the economic order’ go around, and now the proposed three trillion. Where has it gone and where...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #62
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #62 May 16, 2020 “Police are requesting your assistance in locating Tara Trunfio. Trunfio is wanted for violating the Rules and Orders for failure to quarantine. Trunfio is described as a 24 year old,...
The Duke, Part Thirteen
The Duke PART XIII Jimmy and Darren rushed back to Jimmy’s house through the pouring rain. The rain, To Darren, felt warm and comforting simply because they were nearly invisible when they were out in it. No one in their right mind, or on a serious mission, could be...
THE TWENTY-NINTH NIGHT, THIRD PART, 30 Days Has September
The company proceeded along the eastern base of the sheer cliff rising a thousand feet above it. My arrival in the midst of Kilo’s Marines, and reaching the base of the glacis changed none of that. The fire from the other jungle inhabitants, the enemy, remained...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #61
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #61 May 11, 2020 Here they come. A couple of months ago I first discussed the potential of the coming crisis affecting the very core values and mores of the American social condition. Here they come, that...
Coronavirus (Covid19), Reflection #60
Journaling the Coronavirus (Covid19) Pandemic, Reflection #60 May 11, 2020 Airlines and Pandemic A year ago I predicted that the airlines would run into serious difficulties, all of them who currently serve America, formerly the largest and most profitable air...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #59
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #59 May 11, 2020 Hawaii. A primer for how not to enlist the support of the general public in responding to the effects (real and imagined) of the virus. Upon arriving in Hawaii visitors are quarantined for 14...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #58
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #58 May 9, 2020 What aren’t we being told? Well, the unemployment rate hit 14.9 percent today, according to the federal government. The greatest figure of all time was during the depression when it was...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #57
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #57 May 8, 2020 What a grand excuse this has become. The great Coronavirus excuse. If you want an example of this excuse then try calling Amazon. Guess what? Amazon no longer takes phone calls. Amazon sends you...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #57
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #57 May 7, 2020 These are the days, my friend, and I wonder if we are going to get to see a time in our future when they end. Brett Favre, the football star of the Green Bay Packers and honored by just about...
The Duke, Part Twelve
The DUKE Part XII The rain came the following morning. Jimmie’s dad’s Corvair wasn’t going anywhere. Although the convertible top seemed secure when the levers were pushed to hold the canvas and metal rod lattice work down securely, the pounding rain and wind of a...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #56
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection#56 May 6, 2020 When, when indeed? When is the American culture going to get its act together and begin to take action? Are we so divided and conquered that we cannot fix some of the outrages that have...
THE TWENTY-NINTH NIGHT, SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September
There existed no corridor through the jungle, like the one that cut through the undergrowth located on the other side of the river. There, the night before, it had been easy to move back and forth through that protected passage to communicate, supply, reinforce,...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #55
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #55 May 4, 2020 The double down. Are states and medical professionals, the ones appearing on national television, doubling down on stay at home, masks, and business closures regarding the Coronavirus...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #54
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #54 May 3, 2020 Lake Geneva, WI The next step. Yes, six states have eased up on their ‘stay-at-home’ rules, and hopefully, more will follow in rapid succession. As I have attempted to illustrate in...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #53
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #53 May 2, 2020 They are starting to figure out the real effects of what they have done. They can’t say they were wrong to have so ‘over-the-top’ responded to the threat of the virus....
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #52
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #52 May 2, 2020 Quietly, very quietly, and only noted at the bottom of one of those thin columns in the New York Times, did the closure of the Jacob Javits Center in New York get done. The center had been...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #51
Journaling the Coronavirus (Covid19) Pandemic, Reflection #51 May 1, 2020 Every night is like the night before. There is no news except bad virus news. It is getting worse, it is staying the same, it has rising arcs, it will recede maybe and then come crashing...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #50
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #50 May 1, 2020 Masks and gloves are being heavily pushed for wear in almost all cases. Schools, when they open, will require masks to be worn at all times. Macy’s, the large department chain will...
Coronavirus (Covid19), Reflection #49
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #49 May 1, 2020 According to the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, 98% of the American public is fully behind the closures or stay at home policies applied in most states. Am I really in the money two...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #48
Journaling the Coronavirus (Covid19) Pandemic, Reflection #48 April 29, 2020 When will the nation act after this is over? Will the nation finally figure out that an educational institution, like Harvard, that accepts sixty percent of its entrants as...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #47
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #47 April 28. 2020 The first glimmerings of distant troubles, coming on the heels of the virus assault, and the assault on the public by fearful leaders to this disease. Testing and the immunity question....
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #46
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #46 April 27, 2020 Was there not enough…I ask of God. Do you sometimes ask of God? That old adage, supposedly in the bible, but not really, “God will not give you a burden that you are not strong...
THE TWENTY-NINTH NIGHT, 30 Days has September
I examined the great stone wall, the wall that rose up from the bottom of the valley for a full thousand feet, vertically rising without big enough cracks, hand-holds or other features to allow it to be climbed without serious mountaineering equipment. The 175’s had...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #45
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #45 Sunday April 25, 2020 Helping someone else. The very best cures for depression, ennui, and just that anxious lousy feeling of worry is to get out there and find somebody else to HELP. In...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #44
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #44 April 25, 2020 Lake Geneva, WI Harley Davidson, Trek, and Alan Edmonds Shoes…what do they all have in common? The automobile, or rather the lack of those human carriages has brought a certain...
TWENTY-NINTH DAY, THIRD PART, Thirty Days Has September
I huddled in what I had come to consider my cave, a dry place in a wet world of drizzling misery. The bottom of the cave, although consisting of sandy dirt rather than stone, like its walls, was mildly dusty from going many years without being touched by outside...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #43
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #43 April 23, 2020 Some ninety-year-old doctor keeps coming on the television to pronounce that there are waves of the virus coming just up ahead. The tsunami analogy fits perfectly for this kind of utter...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #42
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #42 April 23, 2020 I feel like the outlier or outsider once again, as I look at the figures posted on MSNBC this morning. Supposedly 76 percent of the public think that these stay at home rules are the right...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #41
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #41 April 22, 2020 Capitalism is simply a word used to describe the social and economic structure of how our culture exchanges goods and services for other goods and services. It is a formalized system of...
The Duke, Part Eleven
THE DUKE Part XI With the Bofors rounds safely tucked into the padded back seat of the Corvair, Jimmy drove the machine down Kalakaua toward the zoo, this time his driving so slow and careful Darren couldn’t believe it. Jimmy’s moving of the rounds from the front...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #40
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #40 April 21, 2020 Enforcement. So far, the major effort to increase testing has been led by a media and governmental effort to describe the tests as some form of allowing those testing negative to feel relief,...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #39
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #39 April 20, 2020 The gloves and the masks. I have masks now. I am trying to get used to wearing one whenever I go out. I also have surgical gloves now, something I’ve never worn in my life. There seems...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #38
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #38 April 20, 2020 When I was in Vietnam, fighting down in the A Shau Valley, the North Vietnamese Army installed drums along the top edges of the cliff complex up above both sides of the valley, which was less...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #37
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #37 April 19, 2020 You didn’t do anything. It’s not your fault, and no, failing to wear a mask everywhere or rub with sanitizer at every contact is not your fault. We have all been conditioned by...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #36
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVD19) Pandemic, Reflection #36 April 19, 2020 As the nation shuts down. Although the door is closed and the signs are up, the nation has not achieved full shut down status just yet. The effects of shutting down are what I am...Subscribe to FROM THE WILDERNESS
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