Culture in America: Where It All Begins… and Ends. Part 1 – a primer
Culture as Water I have had the good fortune to have traveled extensively my whole life. I’ve driven through all but one of these united States (South Dakota), and a career in the military allowed me to see a good chunk of Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and...
Statism in America: A Two-Branch Tree of Woe
I intentionally used the word “Statism” in place of “Socialism” in the title to this piece because no matter what anybody ever says “socialism” is, it isn’t that; that being whichever most-recently-failed flavor of Marxism has descended into an authoritarian dystopia...
“Systemic Racism” – A Play in Four Parts
I. An Apology… Sort of In light of my recent notoriety over my defense of my friend, Greg Glassman, I have received (mostly) supportive feedback, some mild disagreement, a correction, and several pieces of semi-literate, gibbering nonsense…Of course, it is...
In Defense of Greg Glassman
CrossFit CEO and CrossFit community rift is reflective of larger split in these United States It starts with a tweet… Oy. Of course it does. I was Greg Glassman’s lawyer for 8+ years at CrossFit; I was his first General Counsel and an early CrossFit...
Chapter 22: Why, Indeed
If both individual and organizational greed largely describe the “Why” of Chapter 20, the final reason for the refusal to concede the low ground of the AVIP also falls under the broad category of “money,” but in the negative sense, rather than the positive one. In...Support The Abject Lesson on Patreon
