The Rational Ram

In the interest of full disclosure to my readers, the Earl Nightingale quote that opens this post is a rediscovery of something I innately followed throughout my life, but far too often let lapse from time to time. As I get older, the lapses tend not to happen as often. For the uninitiated, Earl Nightingale […]

Source of photo: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V_F6QT1cPms/maxresdefault.jpg For the uninitiated, “SJW” stands for Social Justice Warrior. An SJW is humorously defined by the Urban Dictionary as “the overly offended, blindly ignorant scum of the Internet who reports anything and everything that offends them”. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SJWs The formal definition of the term, according to Merriam-Webster is “an often mocking term […]

On this Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I thought I’d open this post with one of my favorite quotes from the late, great Reverend Doctor King. Sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity are at the heart of many of the problems our country and our world has faced and continues to contend with to this […]

Everyone wants to be a winner. Everyone loves a winner. No one ever remembers who came in second or who lost a championship match. Winners get to enjoy the spoils, so why wouldn’t you want to be a winner? Losing is for losers and who wants to be a loser? In this final installment of […]

Source of photo: YouTube.com Dear Millennials, This is your Uncle Ram. I’m writing you today in an attempt to enlighten you about how the world works. The political and economic world anyway. Firstly, I know most of you don’t like President Trump. I also know that many, if not most of you love Senator Bernie […]

Source of photo: https://mankindprojectjournal.org/blog/2016/06/15/aggrieved-entitlement-and-evolved-masculinity/ In at least two previous posts on this blog, I cited the term “aggrieved entitlement”, but until now, I failed to fully define what aggrieved entitlement is. I intend to rectify this by further elucidating upon the term and how it is driving much of our political and societal discord in […]

Source of photo: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/107171666106720889/ I preface this post by offering my condolences to the families of Tony Wallace and Richard White, the two gentlemen killed in the White Settlement, Texas church shooting just before the New Year. Having grown up in Fort Worth, Texas, White Settlement is a suburb of Fort Worth, this shooting hits […]

Source of photo: https://direaldenzi.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/new-year-new-me-nynm-yeah-right/ On the eve of New Year’s Eve, I thought I’d post a rational message about how I approach every new year… As one might gather from the photo that opens this post, I’m not a big believer in “new year, new me” rhetoric. Truth be told, the vast majority of people […]

Source of photo: https://www.wecard.org/new-“21”-minimum-age-law-takes-effect-california Once upon a time, when a person turned 18 years of age, he or she officially became an adult, with the requisite responsibilities and privileges that come with being an adult. 18 year olds are at the age of consent to have sex in all 50 states, they don’t require a […]

Photo taken from: YouTube.com I love the 1972 film The Godfather. The picture that opens this blog post depicts one of my favorite scenes from the film, where Don Vito Corleone admonishes Johnny Fontaine for crying about not knowing what to do about not getting offered a movie role he desperately wanted by telling him […]