Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt, you’re gonna want something strong, this is going to piss you right off.   Alright, listen up! This is going to be profane, if you can’t handle that, move the hell on.  Nothing less than profanity is going to get across the amount of rage and loathing I feel about this.   The investigation ...

Funny isn't it how each day, in whole new ways, we all seem to learn that lesson over and over again. Those light bulb moments happen all of the time. Sometimes the lesson is small and painless, at other times growing pains are beyond real. We stumble, we fall and yet God is there to ...

  Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt, get something to drink, and let’s talk.   The topic today is Spies. Spies in cinema, Spies in reality. Spies in behavior.  Oh and I have to throw in something about bad judgement as well… So, let’s get to it.   First, there’s the definitive spy of cinema, James Bond.  Now I’m not a ...

Amy Wax and Larry Alexander, law professors at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of San Diego, co-authored an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 9 August 2017.  Great wailing and gnashing of teeth, rending of garments and showering in ashes followed.  What heinous, heretical idea did they expound?  The dangerous idea that if ...

  Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt, pull up a chair, I’ve got a wonderful dark rum for you to try.   Look, when I started this little series of talks, it was never my intent to be primarily a political commentator. Yeah, I know that seems hard to believe, but it’s true.   This place is supposed to be about ...

Some things will never change and some things will change for the better. Life is full of life lessons.  I am an extremely stubborn person and it seems that I tend to learn the same lessons over and over again.  Just when I think I have whatever I think it was that I supposed to ...

  I am not a morning person. At all. But, in some seasons, I will get up early in the morning to run with my friends before work. It is the best time to exercise, honestly, compared to after work when I’m tired/there are other things competing with my time/I just want to go home. But ...

Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt, Pull up a chair.  I’m feeling a little under the weather this morning (3 hours in a dental chair and a flu shot on the same day will do that to you) so let’s stay with coffee this morning.   Fear.  My what a powerful motivator fear is.  Now emotions in general are ...

    Welcome back to the scuttlebutt.   Pour a drink, have a seat, and let’s talk. Last week, I mentioned discussing the Navy’s funding issues, and the report by General Schmidle and Adm. Montgomery, I will be doing that today, but first I must tip my hat.   It’s not often that a geek will say something nice about Jeff Bezos.  ...

Crossfit boxes around the world have differing policies when it comes to “open gym” time - a set period when members are allowed to use the facility outside of class for anything they want. Most boxes offer an open period surrounding class times because members want to supplement their workouts with accessory work, stretching, and ...