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Some years ago I wrote an essay on what I call "the Pause." Meaning: some of us should listen, pause, ponder, and only then think or do. The same seems to be true of writing.

In fact the above seems like good advice in-general. Usually when I free-associate verbally, people grow a bit puzzled, quickly. I'm something of an odd duck and don't seem to mentally process like others.

To wit: decades ago, I gave up drinking. Fortunately, it was easy enough...

"Widely acknowledged as the two most important works on strategy and war, The Art of War by Sun Tzu and On War by Carl von Clausewitz have long been studied on a discrete basis, with the assumption that the theses they advanced were fundamentally at odds."

Indeed. One advocated force as a last resort, the other as a "last resort of diplomacy." I'll let you, dear reader, decide which is which.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...l?intcmp=hpbt2...

This post is about cars, men, and middle aged thoughts. Stay awhile, if that appeals. I'll use Porsche lingo, too, hoping it makes sense to at least a few readers.

Porsche makes a marvelous car called the 911. An amusingly coincidental number to Americans for two obvious reasons: one about emergency help, the other a national tragedy from 2001. A number that strikes a bit of alarm, and unease. As a product, though, it evokes one feeling only from those in the know: pure driving...

From National Review, 3/25/2016:

"Importing large numbers of new refugees without any realistic plan to help them avoid a similar fate is cultural self-immolation."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...a-stop-pc-lies

My family were immigrants, from Ireland, in the 19th Century both maternally and paternally. My maternal roots date from Ohio in the early 1800s, fraternal Boston in the late 1800s....