To pick up from Warp Whistle 11 of “The Investor’s Warp Whistles,” what follows are specific examples of administrative bloat as well as lessons from what a college looks like today. Administrative Bloat These excessive expenditures serve to enhance the university’s brand or to attract prospective students—but they do nothing to improve the quality of […]
The Religion of Ideology
Given a lack of meaningful information, Man is blind; he will seek instead to use his intuition, “instincts,” and naked assumptions to form an opinion. This is not wrong, per se; it is a natural reaction to seek to fill gaps in one’s knowledge. When the matter is of great importance, these opinions unfortunately will […]
A Blood-Soaked Lens
Our societal lens has become smudged, cracked, and broken. Through that lens, young boys go fight and die in the mud for our righteous country. “Heroes, all!” Through that lens, the noble flag waves majestically overhead while life leaves their broken and fragile bodies. Boys cough up blood and wilt like dying flowers before a […]
The Coming Crash is Unlike any Other in USA History (a Perfect Storm)
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” – Mark Twain tldr; The US and global economies are on verge of an epic collapse. Before end of this year—and likely even before end of August 2024—we will start to see financial/economic cracks emerge & dominos begin to fall. JULY 14, 2024 – STRATHAM, NH Despite […]
Corporate Lunch Poems (Liberty Mutual)
I wrote the following poems between 2011 – 2014 while working at a corporate “desk job” for the behemoth insurance company, Liberty Mutual. There were probably a few hundred poems written during this short timeframe, but most have been lost (along with a good chunk of my sanity) and scattered to the winds of time. […]
The American Flag
By Sean Dempsey06/18/24 See the waving of our flag— Heroic flag!What a patriotic story of this gentle, simple rag.How it stiffens our resolve;For no problem it can’t solve!How it gushes and it rushes,For our soul it does enflame—A pure passion for The Cause:Our homeland’s gentle reign.Oh, what glorious, awesome mightOf our nation’s righteous fight!How it […]
Dismal Tragedy of the Libertarian Party
It is a curious irony of the human condition that we often kill what we profess to cherish most — or, as it is said in Latin: “Occidimus quod nos fovere profitemur.” However, this irony may be lost on the Libertarian Party. The May 2024 nomination of Chase Oliver in Washington DC as the Libertarian […]
Author’s Note (following Ava and the Storm)
Author’s Note Dear Parent, Thank you for reading my book. I wrote this children’s story for my six year old daughter – as both a warning and a plea. I hope it may serve as a desperate search for light and sanity in dystopian times, fading more and more into darkness each day. The social […]
Poisoned Fruit
by Sean Dempsey, 4/12/22 Ignorance is the soil, and propaganda the manure required to seed a Forest of Lies. Those who live in the woods and feed off the fruits of this forest are impervious to all manners of Truth—even when revealed to them, they retreat to the putrid shade of the canopy and cower […]
The Lost Path
The Lost Path by Sean Dempsey The air, just breezy enough to be warm,Cast a spell on our walk, as sun trick’d through:No risks to be seen or signs to forewarn:Not but the trees and the brush in our view. And divine was it, our walk on the path;I still will attest, with every breath […]