Association, Disassociation, Owning the Language, and a Universal Failure to Realize the Left/Right Political Spectrum is Useless. 

The disassociation of Neely from his mental illness, actions, and the situation of his own creation, along with the association of Garcia with “White Supremacy,” along with the ownership of the language in use by nearly everyone that has anything to say on the subject, has again bogged down any thoughtful discourse in a Left/Right argument that is not just outmoded – but harmful and willfully misleading.

The 2nd Amendment, Mental Illness, Woke Culture, and Mass Shootings.

Can we stop pretending that this is a crisis of an inanimate object?  Mass murder will happen regardless of mode – and many nations with some of the highest murder rates have the most restrictive gun laws on the planet.  Mode is not the issue, even in mass murders - see also the Waukesha SUV Christmas parade attack, Yunnan province knife attack, and hundreds of others.  We have a mental health crisis – and mass shootings are just one symptom.

Wearing Your Resume

I felt my soul come back into my body at that moment.  Slab didn't come at me in a rage.  He didn't make assumptions.  He didn't pre-judge the situation.  I have seen all of that happen before.  I have been on the receiving end of ungodly rage from Senior Non-Coms - and knew I had not done anything wrong.  This was different.  It told me a lot more about who Slab is as a man, and I liked what I learned.

California – A Case Study in Failure

Why are these so-called Liberals, who pander to the perpetually offended, and act in ways that would make Il Duce and Goebbels proud, all while telling us how the very Capitalism that made them rich is horrible, and we should all live under the protective thumb of a never-been-tried-before “Democratic Socialist” utopia, suddenly packing up and moving to classically liberal states that have lower taxes, more freedom, and *gasp* support he 2nd Amendment?