07/21/25

Do HARD THINGS When You Are Young

You think you might have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, punk? Maybe you do or maybe you don’t, but you can prep for the assignment when you’re young and know everything.

Let’s clear up some misconceptions about first time entrepreneurs in America

Lots of baloney about the age of entrepreneurs in America. It’s not what you think.

 1. The average age entrepreneurs launching their first baby is 42. Yep, first timers are in their 40s. Not 20-something whiz kids, guys in their 40s. Surprises me. Continue reading →

07/16/25

The Curious Story of the Epstein Files

It goes without saying that Epstein was a blackguard and an evil person. He might have been in league with his father-in-law, Robert Maxwell, and been a Mossad agent. Who knows?

Epstein and his main squeeze, Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert Maxwell, is alleged to have been a Mossad operative/asset

BTW, Old Sport, the woman in the picture is Ghislaine Maxwell who was convicted of five sex trafficking of minors charges related to Epstein’s activities and sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $750,000. Continue reading →

07/10/25

Venture Capital, QSBS Capital Gains Tax Exemption, And One Big Beautiful Bill Act 2025

Many Dem bombthrowers and haters tear their hair out and beat their breasts — whilst wailing and gnashing their teeth — accusing the OBBB of being Trump 2.0’s paen to “Trump’s buddies.” In this instance, it may be true. I will let you drawn the final conclusion.

President Trump 2.0 executed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 on 4 July 2025 in a legislative triumph of monumental proportions.

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07/1/25

The Twelve Day War — What Did The World Learn?

The Twelve Day War wherein Israel attacked Iran without warning — followed by a similar attack by the United States — as it stood on the edge of developing a nuclear weapon was a very expensive learning exercise.

So, Big Red Car, what did we learn?

Here are some learnings:

 1. We learned that the Mossad is a very tricky and sly bunch of professionals who set up shop inside Iran and let loose a terrific drone attack on Iranian infrastructure, air defenses, military leadership, and nuclear scientists.

Reports are that Mossad and other Israeli commandos not only infiltrated Iran, but assembled their drones while inside Iran. In effect, Israel set up a factory, produced drones, and launched these drones against Iran from inside Iran.

Now that’s some bloody assymetrical warfare, eh?

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06/17/25

Israel v Iran — The Long Distance Love Affair Gone Awry

Israel and the United States have steadfastly said for years that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

They view a nuclear Iran — a belligerent country whose leadership constantly chants “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” — as an existential threat to the survival of Israel and as a trigger for a gigantic regional war in the Middle East — read a prelude to WWIII.

[Step back a second, amigo — for decades Iran has been the largest exporter of terrorism most of it targeted on Israel via the proxies of Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian terror groups, and the Houthis who have wreaked havoc on Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Recently the Israelis have dealt with all of these groups.

Is there any doubt that if Iran developed nuclear weapons it would in any way hesitate to use them against Israel?]

In addition, Iran has an advanced missile, drone, and cruise missile program with a large stockpile of such weapons. This is some serious shit.

Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran — he may no longer be with us as of right now, but he won’t be with us much longer in any event.

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06/9/25

The Greater Good?

Comes before us today, the issue of whether democracy is really organized to deliver the greater good for the greatest number of people?

WTF are you talking about, Big Red Car?

Fair question, dear reader. Let’s examine the case of the Minnesota Girls’ AAAA Softball Championship Tournament and the winning team’s transgender pitcher.

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06/4/25

Leadership And Artificial Intelligence

In life and in leadership there are things we know or we don’t know that bear on our ability to be a successful leader.

We know what we know.

We sometimes know what we don’t know.

We always don’t know what we don’t know.

The limitations of this last one — not knowing what we don’t know — can be fatal.

If one approaches the issue of running/leading a business with a framework of Vision, Mission, Strategy, Tactics, Objectives, Values, and Culture (which is a very good way to run a business) then what we know becomes very important. Continue reading →