Do you subscribe to the notion that the internal combustion engine/fossil fuel will soon be replaced as the prevailing means of ground transportation? If you do, we are already in agreement. Electrons are the new hydrocarbons. Electricity is the new program to get with, one that, if your country doesn’t get with it soon, will relegate you and your countrymen to technological … [Read more...] about Op-Ed: It’s Tesla versus China in the new era of electric vehicles
George E. Hand IV Articles
Quick tips to repair your garbage credit score
We're all professionals and adults. We're aware of our credit scores and understand how they are key to our financial plight or success. We realize that our credit score, if low, can preclude us from getting a mortgage or can cost us dearly over the life our monthly mortgage payments. Imagine, if you are able (and some of us are very able), that you have a bad credit score … [Read more...] about Quick tips to repair your garbage credit score
Op-Ed: DeepFake video technology could be good for a prank or for starting a war
When my freshman high school yearbook came out it featured four of what the school deemed to be the top students of the year. I frowned at the fact that I was not one of the exalted four-pack, and I bitterly cut my own face out of a photo and pasted it over one of the quartet on the cover. “Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about.” I nodded smugly. I was satisfied with my … [Read more...] about Op-Ed: DeepFake video technology could be good for a prank or for starting a war
Military change of command: It’s a mad world when there’s a new sheriff in town
“I’m the new unit commander. If you need me, I’ll be just over there (gestures)…commanding.” When I contemplate the drama of the changing of the commanding figure of an organization—the rotation in of a new boss—it puts me oddly in mind of some rows of wall lockers. Just rows of a few dozen wall lockers abutted against a wall. I'll get to why in a moment. You see, all new … [Read more...] about Military change of command: It’s a mad world when there’s a new sheriff in town
No sh*t, there I was: The time a US Army combat diver nearly became shark food
Large creatures under the sea give me the creeps. Grouper startle me, barracuda give me the heebie-jeebies, and sharks…well, sharks make masonry bricks come out of my ass. I wish like hell they didn’t scare me; I would have a bad-boy T-shirt printed up that says, “Ain’t Scared of Sharks.” I could rotate wearing it with my other bad-boy T: “Runs with Scissors.” In the murky … [Read more...] about No sh*t, there I was: The time a US Army combat diver nearly became shark food
No sh*t, there I was: The time a US Army combat diver got run over by a powerboat piloted by a hairdresser
As I take a mental inventory of the many great experiences with which I have been blessed, it occurs to me immediately that those are offset by great experiences' ugly sister: bad experiences. They appear to complement each other nicely by number in a yin/yang sort of way. I for one welcome the notion of a balanced universe; it keeps me from being a perpetual bottom-dweller of … [Read more...] about No sh*t, there I was: The time a US Army combat diver got run over by a powerboat piloted by a hairdresser
The risk of planning a murder on Snapchat
Already this year the military has suffered the cold-blooded murder of one of its soldiers at the hand of his own wife and her secret lover. The couple, married since 2016, had a one-year-old son. The departed, Sgt. Tyrone Hassel III, was ambushed as he attempted to enter his vehicle on New Year’s Eve, 2018. Kemia Hassel and her lover, Jeremy Cuellar, were both stationed … [Read more...] about The risk of planning a murder on Snapchat
Retired Delta Force operator: The time I worked submarine operations with US Navy SEALs
How does a man who is not a Navy SEAL manage to tag along with a SEAL team for a week of submarine operations? Mostly dumb luck, is my sterling response. I was a combat diver assigned to a Green Beret A-Team when my boss caught me in his crosshairs with an invitation from West Coast SEAL Team Five to join them for a week of submarine underway operations. At that point my … [Read more...] about Retired Delta Force operator: The time I worked submarine operations with US Navy SEALs
Op-ed: It’s 2019, and yes, polygamy and human trafficking still exist in the US (continued)
You can read Part 1 of the series here. Most any earthly population generally runs at about a 50/50 mix of males to females (provided people can actually figure out which one they are these days), so with men being assigned some dozen wives by the FLDS church, it doesn’t take long for a glut of males to form within the community—unwanted males. To avoid such an imbalance, … [Read more...] about Op-ed: It’s 2019, and yes, polygamy and human trafficking still exist in the US (continued)
Opinion: It’s 2019, and yes, polygamy and human trafficking still exist in the US
How many wives is too many? All but the most sporting of men might say that sometimes one is too many. How many wives can a man truly love and really take care of? How many children can he truly love and care for? If you live in the U.S., the culture and legislation strongly suggest the answer to the question of the number of wives is, and shall remain, one at a time. I’m a … [Read more...] about Opinion: It’s 2019, and yes, polygamy and human trafficking still exist in the US
Opinion: All in all there’s Trump’s wall. Can more than a billion Chinese be wrong?
Before the seventh century, the Chinese already had their version of a truly modern-day American crisis. It was just another flavor of an age-old hullabaloo that stirs wherever neighbors are aware of other neighbors; the tendency to go mess with them and take their stuff is just too overpowering, and then it's game on! The only way people will truly get along is if there is … [Read more...] about Opinion: All in all there’s Trump’s wall. Can more than a billion Chinese be wrong?
Opinion: China’s recent tit-for-tat move a petulant response
China is on my crap list. Well, heck, they have been on our national crap list for a long time now. The country's preposterous preponderance of people notwithstanding, it possesses a noticeable deficiency when it comes to thinking for itself, that China does. I have to wonder if they aren't suffering from the scourge of a Dynasty-X or a millennium Dynasty affliction of sorts. … [Read more...] about Opinion: China’s recent tit-for-tat move a petulant response