As President Biden continues to talk unity, benevolence and competency while walking division, control and catastrophe, everyday people are finding increasing ammunition for fear and worry.

With an eye on antidotes, let’s take a few minutes to put things in proper perspective.

The mission is to maintain yourself as an Island of Sanity in America’s Sea of Chaos. Here’s a quick take on how to plant your feet:

COVID – There’s growing weariness with the heavy hand of untrusted leadership, convoluted corruptions of the scientific model, and the misguided use of mockery, accusation and threats as compliance carrots. Therein one finds neither compassion, confidence or an effective call to action. Weigh out your own good sense on masks and vaccines, act on your best estimations, and keep on going...

SURRENDER IN AFGHANISTAN – Believe what your eyes, the timeline and the outcome tells you. America has wasted lives, resources and credibility in a place where no one – including the Afghans – has ever won a war. Give your respect to the ones who fought there, disdain the folly of the ones who sent them there, vow to never be quiet the next time our politicians embrace nation- building by a nation that can’t protect its own borders, and keep on going...

DEBT UP TO OUR EYEBALLS – Imagine how much fun it would be to have a credit card with no limits and no expectation of repayment. Then imagine the absurdity of leadership pretending our government is similarly exempt. Not counting unfunded future promises, every person in America carries eighty-six thousand dollars in federal debt. Recognize this is going to impact your future, shrink personal debt, build a reliable rainy-day fund, stay productive and keep on going...

CHINA INC. – China has declared war on America and the rest of the free world. At present it’s a technology, economic and political war, but history tells us conflicts of this nature reliably become shooting wars. We’ve spent tomorrow’s defense dollars on yesterday’s illusions in Iraq and Afghanistan. There will be a price to pay. Where you can, invest in America first, ignore Chinese propaganda, vote for wise leaders and keep on going...

EDUCATION CORRUPTION – The pillars of a liberal arts education are truth, reason, open-mindedness and diversity of view. The foundation of those seeking to teach our children to be liberals is propaganda, emotion, dogma and snobbery. Avoid donating to the 95 percent of colleges who do the latter. Do what you can to counter the nonsense your kids are fed in public school, teach them what matters and what’s true as you provide a model of both, and keep on going...

GENDER CONFUSION – Yes, love is love, but how we use our pee-pees has very little to do with love. Where love does enter the equation is that we should love our fellow men, women and others, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore chromosomal science that says there are two genders. Step over what other people chose to do with their pee-pee, question the pretense of 71 Facebook genders, and keep on going...

DEPENDENCY ON GOVERNMENT – The reason so many politicians relentlessly give away other people’s money is from an addiction to vanity and power – not compassion. Recognize that making independent humans dependent on government is the morale equivalent of chaining a puppy to a doghouse, and keep on going...

LOSS OF FAITH – The world’s primary models of education, commerce, governance, morality and medicine are grounded in Judeo-Christian influences. We are abandoning faith to our peril and the evidence is showing up everywhere. Take responsibility for preserving this heritage as a priority, and you’ll be more able to keep on going...

UNLEASHING OUR DRUG CULTURE – Did we ever think there would be a time when essentially every extended family in our community was harmfully impacted by addiction? Inconsistent enforcement, recovery pretenses and obsession with substances as a path to mindlessness has created a culture where the psychologically medicated – legal or otherwise – outnumber those who aren’t. Remember that a life built on escape and evasion through chemistry is another version of that puppy chained to a doghouse reference, and keep on going...

RELEASING OUR KRAKEN – Have you noticed our world is getting angrier, and, worse, increasingly licensed to unleash that anger? That’s matters because anger always does two things – (1) make us stupid and (2) lies. Angry people react versus think and angry people avoid deeper emotions like fear, hurt or sorrow. Keep mashing your maturity button and refuse to join our society in its rush to get dumber, avoid running to anger to evade honest emotions that build up and must then be muted with medication, and keep on going...