Past Performance Is Not A Guarantee Of Future Behavior ...
.., but it is the safe way to bet when politics are involved.I think David Gregory, the not-quite-yet-late commentator for the NBC News organization, might want to give serious - and fairly immediate -...
View ArticleStrategy Is Amoral (which is why it works so well)
Via Aaron Clarey's Captain Capitalism blog comes notice of this Seattle, Washington news story presented by NBC TV network affiliate King5."No pictures taken; no questions asked", regarding who turned...
View ArticleTransformative Strategy
I received an email from Phil Bowermaster the other day in which he pointed out what he saw as similarities between my views on classical strategy, the evolutionary developmentalism concept John Smart...
View ArticleStrategy Principles In Abundance
This isn't really a book review, more an observation on the ideas expressed by the authors of the book, but I encourage everyone to buy this book and study what it has to offer. Not just read it; we...
View ArticleA Rights-Based Strategy Of Exponential Technology Change
There exists in the USA an energetic (and more than occasionally vituperative) debate into the nature of rights. Their source, their expression and, perhaps most vehement of all, the acceptable...
View ArticleThe Threat Of Abundance - A Strategic Model
In their book, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler write a brief over-view of many of the dangers associated with the concept of exponential growth of technology. This can be found in the appendix on...
View ArticleA World Transformative Opportunity
Confused by the plethora of technology choices you daily find yourself confronted with? Want an easy-to-learn technique to help you answer all your questions? Can't help you. However, if you have...
View ArticleStrategy Policy
Via Glen Reynolds we learn of the important question; "FOREIGN CHEESE: Threat, Or Menace?"From my years of reading Sun Tzu (not to forget 4 years of high school PE followed by another 4 years of "close...
View ArticleHey Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
So, the other day Captain Capitalism (AKA: Aaron Clarey) (Yes, it's on Kindle too ... sigh) posted a video he made about the Federal Reserve and whatever else it was that was clogging up his spleen....
View ArticleLife As A Series Of Second Acts
I don't ordinarily go into much in the way of personal detail here; frankly, it's no one else's business and mostly too crushingly mundane and boring to anyone not required to slog through it. Then...
View Article(Retail) Evolution In Action
I read at The Firearms Blog that Amazon.com may be removing shooting sport-related items from their customer fulfillment inventory. I sent the following message to the Amazon.com PR email link just...
View ArticleMy Second Time Shooting IDPA
Lock & Load (under "Where I Shoot" over on the right there) sponsors an IDPA club and held a rare Sunday afternoon match today. Even though I'm not properly a member (the whole works second shift...
View ArticleMaking Work = Job
There is an on-going lament about "Where have all the jobs gone?" or variations on that theme. The single most common aspect of the question seemingly being that "job" is a tangible item which some...
View ArticleIn Which The Question Is Asked, What's Up With Those Gun Guys?
Via Instapundit I learned of this article in The Atlantic by Dan Baum titled What Liberals Need To Understand About 'Gun Guys'.Formatted as a Q&A interview, Mr. Baum asks and answers:At one point...
View ArticleHabemus papum*
So the Porteneo gets the new kicks. He's going to need every bit of that famed Jesuitical casuistry - and maybe an assist from the Greek pantheon - to get through all he faces next. The sainted...
View ArticleIf It's Good Enough For Tam ...
... I'm going with some "away game" content too.Rand Simberg has a post up about the Aurora, CO shooter reportedly having converted to Islam while in prison. He says:And no, I don’t really know what...
View ArticleFurther (Retail) Evolution In Action
Last month, I wrote about a rumor public accusation that Amazon.com was getting out of firearms-related product sales. As part of that, I communicated with Amazon's customer relations staff and...
View ArticleIs Marriage Unconstitutional?
This began as a comment at The Conservative Sociologist in response to her reaction to the GMM (Gay Marriage Movement). She isn't opposed, but finds the logic and media presentation to be flawed and...
View ArticleStop Helping The Opposition
Say Uncle says:Gabby Gifford’s hubby continues having a rough few weeks. The latest is that he tried to buy a handgun out of state and illegally. He was denied because we already have background checks...
View ArticleIt's Official, RC Church Declares For Fascism
One Sister Mary Ann Walsh, who glories in the title Director of Media Relations for the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has publish an article in the Washington Post in which she proclaims that...
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