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• Weaponizing Wellness: What They Never Taught Us About Recovery May 18, 2026
  By Rob Sweetman, Former Navy SEAL, Sleep Scientist, and Veteran Advocate We trained to be machines—deadly, focused, relentless. We were told to sleep when we’re dead. And most of us took that mindset straight into war. Some of us brought it back home, buried it deep, and kept grinding until the wheels came off. The […]
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• Military Readiness – Seen Thru the Lens of Army Aviation May 17, 2026
  By Lt Col (ret), US Army, Darin Gaub This first appeared in Darin’s blog and is republished with the author’s permission. The Readiness of America’s Military is Under Internal Attack – the Recent Accidents in Army Aviation, and the Response After, is an Indicator of What Plagues the Entire Military Image credit: author I spent […]
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• Exponential Apathy May 17, 2026
  You could say it’s been an eventful season for our political circus. Emotions have been stirred on all sides for one reason or another. Yet, I feel absolutely nothing. I honestly don’t care anymore about any of it. I have become apathetic to our government as a whole. I see people virtue signaling daily for […]
  Stan Lake
• When the Virtue Machine Learned to Hate in Public May 16, 2026
  The most impressive trick of modern American moral culture is that it can take an ancient prejudice, hose it down with graduate-school vocabulary, slap a lanyard on it, and march it straight into the faculty lounge as “liberation.” Bigotry used to at least have the decency to arrive wearing a bedsheet. Now it comes with […]
  Tammy Pondsmith
• The Story of How Jaded I Am May 16, 2026
  A song came on the radio today, an early 2000s song, one of those catchy ones whose meaning is lost. It’s one of those songs that obviously lays out the sexual nature in its lyrics but is lost in the catchy music (think R Kelley, Ginuwine, Usher, etc).  Having had a few fermented friends at a […]
  Jake Smith