From Erosion to Escalation: A Structural Analysis of US Institutional Instability (2025–2026)

  Executive Summary   Over the past year, a pattern has emerged across governance, law, economics, and foreign policy that is difficult to understand when viewed as isolated events. However, when organized structurally, these events reveal a coherent progression: Institutional erosion → centralization of authority → politicization → information control → economic distortion → external … Read more

Setting Sail Tomorrow

Checked into our hotel this evening, the night before we board the cruise ship.  The trip so far has been primarily uneventful, and I have thoroughly enjoyed my self. Today was the longest day of driving. Drove from Gainesville Georgia to Tampa Florida. Having never gone on a cruise before, I’m unsure of what to … Read more

Getting ready to set sail…

It’s February 12th, 2026, and I’m preparing to go on my very first cruise with my significant other (Becky). She’s been ‘cruising’ now for a couple of years. Her sister (Vanessa) invited her to her first one, and the two of them have gone on a number of cruises together since that first one. Their … Read more

Hunkered Down and Healthy

Easter – April 12, 2020 – Didn’t have French Toast Casserole this morning.  Didn’t have kielbasa, didn’t have ham, didn’t have beet red horseradish on my ham or kielbasa.  Didn’t’ have any blessed bread or butter. Didn’t have the blessed hard boiled egg either. Didn’t have my brother turning his nose up at the blessed … Read more

2015 – Work year ending…

So another year has come, and is almost gone. I can vividly remember the beginning of the year (from a work/job perspective).  I was energized with the thought of taking on a new project.  The research, review and recommendation of a new Learning Management System (LMS) for our company was (and is) a really big … Read more