At some point, you just have to go on the record so that in the future it will be known where you stood on important cultural, social, and yes political issues.

I want to go on the record as being absolutely opposed to the trend of referring to meat as protein on menus. It has crept up ever so slightly, but now seems to everywhere. ‘Choose your protein’ is not something that sounds appealing to me. To be fair, I often do not want meat, especially meat prepared by some place that might have less than sanitary prep areas, so I get the desire to not have beef, poultry, pork, or fish but don’t call meat protein. I know there are other types of proteins besides meat, but the word protein does not belong on a menu. Ever. I don’t know what focus group they are looking at, but yuck. And no, I do not want to add a ‘protein foam’ to my coffee. That sounds like the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard. What next, they will stop selling potatoes and now you must order a ‘starch’? Would you like to upsize that with more amino acids? I mean, when I get my enchilada plate number three, I can get beans and rice or no beans and rice, but I never order legumes and starch.

I want to go on the record as being against the United States taking any aggressive action toward Greenland, Denmark, or any other ally. I can’t believe I live in a time-period where this is even something we are talking about. We already have a military base there, we have historically had pretty much free rein in the region, and it belongs to people who by all appearances really like us. Please, please, someone talk some sense into our leaders and stop this. Just stop it.

I want to go on the record that the catch in the football game Saturday night in the Bills versus Broncos game was the worst call I’ve seen in a playoff game since the famous Dez Bryant catch that wasn’t against Green Bay many years ago. Fans will remember what I am talking about. I am not unhappy for the Broncos, as I am not a fan of either of the teams, but anyone with any sense at all knows the Bills were robbed. It doesn’t mean they would have won the game, but it certainly turned things around.

I want to go on the record that I shed no tears for Nicólas Maduro in Venezuela. He is a very bad man; we may have done that nation a great favor in arresting him. I also want to go on the record that we (The United States) has no business ‘owning’ or ‘controlling’ or ‘seizing’ the economic or political machinery of Venezuela. Prosecute Maduro for his crimes, but let Venezuela solve its own problems. Offer help, assistance, and advice, but coercing oil is not a good look for America.

I want to go on the record that I think the Supreme Court should rule in favor of states that have put limitations on accommodation for what are called trans-students. I know this puts me at odds with many who cite this as a civil right, but it is not a civil right. It is a healthcare and biology issue. If an adult wants to change his or her body I am all for the freedom to do so, and the rights that person has in society to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, children, whose bodies are still changing and raging with hormones and the confusion of adolescence, do not have enough experience or wisdom to make such monumental changes which will last with them for the rest of their lives. States make decisions for children about alcohol, tobacco, driving, military service, passenger safety, employment, right to sign a contract, and so many other things. This is not a hard one to understand the state having the right and responsibility to regulate. For the record, I am not opposed to a student behaving, dressing, or using identifying language anyway they want, but I am opposed to medical or surgical procedures in minors and I am against competition in sports. Title IX was a great achievement, and the trans-movement jeopardizes it.

I want to go on the record, thinking again of sports, that the super-conferences have ruined college football. It is not that any one conference is better than others, but that a conference is meaningless because all the teams don’t play each other, therefore, there is no sense of true strength, or even who is truly the best team. The NCAA should break up these super conferences for its own good. It will not, because right now the money is so vast, but the direction it is headed will end in ruination and the game will suffer. We need a true playoff for the conference champion, and then only conference champions should play each other. Problem solved.

I want to go on the record that while I think AI has great benefits for many fields of innovation and endeavor, such as science and medicine, the governments of this world need to act now, and very soon, to regulate and restrict its use as it relates to the creative arts (images and music) and of human likeness. By restrict, I mean imposing terrible penalties upon those who generate and spread deep fakes and slanderous lies. We are nearing a place where it is impossible to tell real from fake, and if we let people do this without consequences, then we will lose the most important glue that holds society together, and that is trust. When we can no longer trust our eyes and our ears, then society will implode.

I want to go on the record that I don’t think protesting accomplishes much at all. If you want to change things, vote, organize voters, inform voters, drive voters to the polls, register people for mail-in-ballots, and participate in the process of actually electing people who advocate for the things you believe in. Protesting is an enormous waste of time and often has the opposite effect you think it will have. Registering ‘outrage’ is silly. However, it is a constitutionally protected right, and pivotal to the founding of our nation. I’m looking at you, Boston Tea Party. I’d like to think we are mature enough as a society that officers who are doing their job and enforcing the law are safe even as protesters who think those enforced laws are unjust are likewise safe. I will further go on the record that I believe our government is pursuing a wholly unjustified ’round-up’ and is doing so in politically motivated locations. Anyone else notice how it is Minneapolis and not Houston where these things are going down?