Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. Have a seat, and pour yourself something, we need to talk.   Woke Inc. is starting to really annoy me, so I’m going to vent. Most of my comments today will be related to the military, but first I’m going to discuss Wokecon, oh wait, I mean Worldcon.     Now Worldcon is a subject I’ve ...

Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. So many things to write about today, and so little time.  See, I just got back off vacation, and I have a manuscript that I need to finish editing for the publisher, which has taken up most of my day.     But I owe an article, so here it is.     First, we have to ...

  Welcome back to the scuttlebutt,  Oh hell, hit the fridge, or the liquor cabinet, and let’s talk.   Welcome to Campaign 2020.  Do yourself a favor and get snot slinging drunk now, and stay that way until November.  If you fail to do this, don’t come crying to me about “oh my gods, these fuckers are so stupid ...

brouhaha   Brouhaha is something that people think is really important that’s actually not important at all, like the brouhaha over some new celebrity gossip. Brouhaha seems like a big deal, but it’s a bunch of baloney.   Brouhaha has two meanings, and tons of funny-sounding synonyms. The title of the Shakespeare play gives one meaning: "Much Ado about Nothing." The brouhaha over the latest ...

I am quoted inside Dove Chocolate’s candy wrapper. I think I found the submission invitation just scrolling through on Instagram one day. I smiled and thought, “hey that looks fun, and that would be really cool!” not realistically thinking they would ever actually choose mine. I honestly forgot all about it until I came home ...

  Welcome back to the scuttlebutt,  Have a cup of coffee and pull up a chair, this is not a booze moment, this is dead serious stuff.   See that map up there? The counties or cities that have county like status in the Commonwealth of Virginia in various shades of green have passed “second amendment sanctuary status” laws.  ...

  I ran a race recently and experienced something that I think is common to many runners. It is so encouraging to have people along the route cheering for runners and their enthusiasm provides a boost. Usually there is someone cheering along the route that says “Just 3 more miles to go!”. My initial response is ...

Welcome back to the scuttlebutt. Last week I was so bogged down with my day gig, that I didn’t have the brainpower left to do a new article, so I ran one that had been setting in the que.  Little did I realize what the weekend would bring.  So, we’re going to talk about that ...

Proverbs 18:21 “The tongue has the power of life and death…”   Something that is not lacking these days is words-it seems like we are bombarded by them. Traditional media, social media, conversations we overhear. If these words were all uplifting it wouldn’t be much of a problem, but more often they are not.   My dad had ...

    Quote of the Day from Ted Turner