Bourbon & Porchlight

Apply the Art of Strategic Patience to Your Life

But here's the painful reality, especially for us in the Western world – when it comes to remote warfare, if you can't smell the acrid breath of your victims, hear their prayers for mercy, or listen to their desperate pleas buried under rubble, their lives are deemed inconsequential in the West

Happens every year….

I've been thinking a lot about the School to Prison Pipeline for black youth. A scheme this diabolical cannot be an accident. 1-fer - if people can't discriminate in hiring based on race, then they certainly can still discriminate based on felony convictions. 2-fer - And

Hamas pulled off something big on October 7th. Just like the North did during the Tet Offensive. They both changed the narrative.

I've always been able to separate governments from the people they govern. I'm no fan of Hamas or the Netanyahu government, but I feel sympathy for the people they represent.