The Rational Ram

You have to be disgustedly in awe of the competitive dichotomy we practice in this country. To most Americans, life is a zero-sum game. If minorities are making gains, it is at the expense of white Americans. If women are making gains, it is at the expense of men. If a person becomes a self-made […]

How much do you really care? A very simple question with a complex answer. I am in the midst of reading the book Extreme Ownership by author and retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink, and let me tell you, the forward alone makes the rest of the book required reading for humanity, especially those of us […]

Speaking strictly for myself, I’m a little tired of the media coverage of the coronavirus outbreak. “A little tired” is a bit of an understatement, but it more accurately describes how I feel about the current situation since other adjectives such as “frustrated”, “weary”, and “depressed” are descriptors of more extreme emotional reactions and not […]

I have a perverse need to deconstruct memes that convey political or ideological messages that strongly resonate with large numbers of people. Many of these memes are long on emotional appeal and short on logic, which is why I feel compelled to deconstruct them. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems that there […]

It’s worse. Let’s properly define the often misused word “socialism”. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the primary definition of socialism is “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”. The secondary definition of socialism is “a system of society or […]

If you are wondering why I chose a picture of “William Strannix” (portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones in the 1992 film Under Siege) to open this post, it is because the Strannix character delivered a number of witty, yet thought-provoking lines. The most poignant of these lines was the following: Yes, of course! Hence the […]

I feel totally blessed today! There are few milestones in life, but hitting the “Big 5-0” is certainly one of them and I am grateful to not only see this milestone, but to be a happier and healthier version of myself than I was at 40 or even 30. I made a lot of choices […]

Greetings to my readers and I hope all of you are doing well and protecting yourselves and your families. I wish all of you the best during this trying time. I learned during my military career to find the positives and the lessons that difficult times present to us. I learned that needless worries are […]

Today’s post will likely not endear me to my female readers, but the uncomfortable truth is not as welcoming as a comforting fallacy. The 2020 Democratic Presidential field was quite promising if you were rooting for a woman to be nominated for the second time in our country’s history and elected president for the first […]

And why they are all wrong. I wrote a piece on this blog about what constitutes a “real alpha male”, so I won’t go into detail about those specifics here. You can read about that at the link below: https://therationalram.blog/2019/08/25/traits-of-a-real-alpha-male/ To summarize my real alpha male post ever so pithily, an alpha male is a […]