Living in the Time of Change
After eighteen months of COVID and now fully vaccinated, I’m daydreaming about beach time. A good long vacation someplace sunny, but not too hot, a place I can swim every day, a place without too many people.
Instead, I’m buying a new heat pump for the house. Officially one of the most unsexy middle-aged grown-up things a person can do with a stack of cash. At least until you find yourself four days into a climate disrupted heat event, trying to survive under a record setting heat-dome that feels like it is trying kill…
Fox News and the United States Military
As I type this, Fox News is streaming across every United States military facility on the planet. In every ready room and dining facility, every headquarters and waiting room.
And it’s been that way for decades and it’s a liability to the United States military and American democracy.
As a retired Army officer and crisis management expert, I am concerned by the out-sized influence of Fox News across our services. This is the channel that for months promoted the lie that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. This is the network known for misinformation, fact-free broadcasting, outrage, open misogyny…
The Failure of The President and His Men
I am an Afghanistan veteran. I came home as a passenger on a MedEvac to Germany, sitting feet away from my injured fellow soldiers.
We are living in a time where a sitting President can let a Russian put a bounty on our heads and remain in office, unchecked by feckless men who would wave their flags at me and yet stand silent in the face of the betrayal of this nation.
Don’t thank me for my service.
As a sophomore at one of the most liberal colleges in the country, I…
Shelby Edwards
Expert in things going sideways. Crisis Operations, Writer, Major U.S. Army (Retired).
