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I wonder if this Cracker Barrel logo change wasn't just some sort of trial balloon, if it was serious then they're behind the curve since the backlash against wokeness and PCness is gaining strength. Management of corporations, especially big one, often have just as much an Ivory Tower mentality...

I recall a Mad Magazine parody back in the 1960s which noted that: "Today there is only one union with more power and clout and gall than the Teamsters Union- the Soviet Union !"

At the news conference to announce the return of Coke "Classic" as it was now labeled, the then chairman of Coca-Cola said: "I hope nobody thinks we planned it this way. We're not that clever !" The old adage was "The customer is always right !" And they can always take their money elsewhere.

i have an MBA, biggest problem with too many MBA programs is they have become too quantification oriented, trying to turn it into hard science. The note economist Lester Thurow noted that to be accepted as an economist today requires dazzling virtuosity in math but relying on assumptions that...

The Wikipedia article on the Second Korean War lists 2 books and an article in The Journal of Military History for further reading.

Some people think the world revolves around them, the sun rises and sets with them and the rules the rest of us live by do not apply to them.

When I turn my laptop on in the morning before heading to work I note how many of the advice columns, etc. deal with inconsiderateness, sense of entitlement, etc. Recall one, an obese woman on an airplane decided she was entitled to 2 seats, 1 of which someone else had paid for. Another...

The author of Bowling Alone noted that since the 1950s, between TV, A/C and now computers, I-pads, etc., life has moved indoors. I enjoy sitting on my front step, maybe catching some of a sunset, L'heure bleue as the French say. It usually seems I am the only one who does that.

"Monday Morning Quarterbacking" lets us examine-and learn from-other people's actions. And their mistakes. Graduated High School in 1967, Central New Jersey. Always had my Boy Scout knife in my pocket, recall the blades most often used were the can opener and bottle opener. Nowadays I wear my...

Charlie Askins wrote that even when he saw someone else check a firearm to make sure it was unloaded he still checked it himself.

I have read several accounts by-and talked to a few recent veterans-who have told me they could not bring home small knives, multitools, etc. they carried on deployments and were forbidden to carry them on base stateside. The military has embraced the notion of "toxic" masculinity and those of...

My mother told me she and her mother moved into the house I first lived in in 1940, had a nice new electric stove, my grandmother replaced with a gas stove. Then the War came....my mother said they had several blackouts, power shortages but always had the stove. Biggest problem with gas stoves...

There is a fine line between neighborliness and nosiness and I wouldn't feel too guilty about the fate of an unfriendly recluse. In my church a former member , 20 years older than me, like me, a retired Army Reserve/National Guard officer, but we never clicked, the one time I paid a Deacon's...

IMHO these "new fangled " pistol sights-like a scope on a rifle. If you know how to shoot they can make you a better shot, if you don't know how to shoot they can give you a false sense of competence.

56 years since I last jumped. In WWII our paratroopers were taught to pack their own chutes, also the German Falschirmjaegers. Nowadays that's left to the Riggers. In WWII only our boys jumped with a reserve chute. Jump School was the most thorough of any Army course of instruction I...

Play a recording of animal calls, vocalizations, like playing a recording of a language you don't understand, how do you know it's not something rude, offensive, threatening ?

These stories of inter-generational ships voyaging into space have a certain romance to them, then you look at the reality, the practicality, the nuts and bolts. Expecting people to live in confined quarters cheek by jowl for years on end......in Star Trek they were always making stops at...

"One man's trash is another man's treasure." Not sure how I ended up with 2 sets of McDonald's Flintstones mugs but I made a young fellow happy. Rudy Vallee was an enthusiastic collector of theater memorabilia, on his passing the theater department of UCLA received his accumulation, they jumped...

Racking a pump gun is often cited as a warning measure, I leave it to those with more experience to comment.

My Property Law instructor emphasized the Statue of Frauds-all transactions regarding real estate must be in writing, signed, witnessed.