I spent nearly 30 years in law enforcement. That tends to leave a mark on a person. When you spend that much time dealing with criminals, liars, bureaucrats, and the occasional idiot who thinks the rules don’t apply to them, you develop a few useful traits. You learn to read people. You learn to notice details. And you develop a very low tolerance for nonsense.

Unfortunately, those traits also make the modern internet feel like wandering into a three-ring circus run entirely by clowns.

This site is basically where I write about things that interest me, irritate me, or that people on the internet are confidently getting completely wrong. That includes law, self-defense, current events, weather, random observations about life, and whatever else happens to cross my radar while I’m supposed to be doing something more productive.

I’m not here to be an “influencer,” a brand, or a carefully managed personality. I don’t have a social media team. I don’t run posts through a focus group to make sure they’re emotionally safe for everyone. I write what I think. Sometimes that involves facts. Sometimes that involves sarcasm. Quite often it involves both.

A lot of the topics I write about—especially legal ones—are usually explained in a way that almost guarantees the average person won’t understand them. Lawyers write for other lawyers. Bureaucrats write for other bureaucrats. Somewhere along the way the rest of the population got left out of the conversation. I try to translate that stuff into plain English so people can actually understand what the hell is going on.

Fair warning: if you’re the kind of person who gets upset when facts collide with your feelings, you may find this place uncomfortable. The internet is full of motivational quotes, safe spaces, and inspirational memes about “living your best life.” You might be happier over there.

When I’m not writing here, I’m usually doing something motorcycle-related, fixing something in the garage that probably didn’t need fixing, or standing in the kitchen pretending to read a honey-do list while silently calculating how long it would take to get a ride in before anyone notices I’m gone.

My wife is familiar with this strategy. She is not impressed by it.

After three decades of watching how the world actually works, I’ve come to believe a few things:

Common sense is apparently considered an optional feature now.
Facts still matter, even when they ruin a good story.
Most complicated problems become less complicated once you remove the nonsense.
And if you can’t laugh at the absurdity of modern life, you’re going to have a long, miserable ride.

This site isn’t polished. It isn’t corporate. And it definitely isn’t sanitized.

It’s just me, a keyboard, and whatever topic I feel like poking with a stick that day.

If you’re still here after all that, welcome.

If not… the exit button is right up there at the top of the page.

Any commentary, thoughts, viewpoints expressed on this page are those of the author (which may not be me). They do not reflect the thoughts, or viewpoints of anyone else, most notably my employer (if applicable), my wife (she loves me anyway), or any friend or family not specifically identified.

If you have a problem with law abiding citizens being armed. You are the reason law abiding citizens are armed. – Scott White, December 2013

“And my brothers are all black and white, yellow too
And the red man is right, to expect a little from you
Promise and then follow through, America.” Scott White August 2018

“You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you are capable of great violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless. Important distinction.” – Author unknown

I dread the day someone decides it is a good idea to hurt one of my family members.  Because I assure you, my reaction to that will be a level of violence unrestrained like you have never seen.  It will be gruesome and you will not survive.  Scott White, 2013

I do not consider myself a smartass. I point out the obvious, search for the truth, and speak fluent sarcasm. I am, by experience, an accomplished curmudgeon.  Scott White, 2010

I want peace in my life. But I am a PeaceMAKER not a PeaceKEEPER. There is a difference. I will not sit back and pacify to keep a level of peace in my life but I will, if necessary, make it. Actively. Aggressively. Succinctly.  Scott White, 2019

The Second Amendment is only a deterrent against tyranny for as long as the government doesn’t know who is armed and to what extent. Never give in. Never give up. Scott White, 2014

Being disarmed, in the face of a tyrant, is a mistake a free people only get to make once. Live free. Stay armed. Don’t back down. Don’t give in.  Author unknown

In every relationship, no matter how brief, someone always gets hurt to some extent when it ends.  Scott White, 2011

“Some people remain alive because of learned restraint, not any particular emotional or moral objection to killing them.” – Scott White, 01/2012

My list of people that fall under this category is growing daily…

“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty… And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” Someone, probably wearing a powdered wig.

Above all else I am a patriot. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on the planet. In spite of the current crop of IDIOTS in Washington D.C. I am a supporter of our troops, unconditionally, our veterans living and dead.

I am a combat veteran, I truly have been there and done that and have the scars to prove it.

I believe in the Thin Blue Line and will always support law enforcement professionals. That being said, I do NOT always support where law enforcement administrations are taking this profession in this this country.

I love coffee. I hate Starbucks.

I am a “good ole boy”. Southern born, southern raised, southern values, southern mannerisms. I am NOT racist.

I am witty and love to make people laugh. I can be sarcastic when trying to be funny. I am not politically correct.

I am borderline anarchist. I hate the government involved in my life to the extent they are. I think the government needs to back the hell off of me. And everyone else.

I am extremely outspoken.

I don’t candy coat.

I can be rough around the edges.

I am armed. I carry a gun. I am a 2nd Amendment evangelist. If you see me I am exercising my right to carry a weapon. I have several. I think everyone should. There are two types of people in the world. Victims, and those who refuse to be. I am the latter.

I am a retired police officer from a local Hampton Roads (Virginia) jurisdiction. When I left the department I was the Mobile Data Project Manager. I handled all things network and mobile network (in the police cars) for the Police Department. I worked the streets as a patrol officer as well as a Field Evidence Technician (CSI).

I am a Linux professional. But still learning more every day. I speak fluent cPanel and WHM (if you don’t know then you shouldn’t care) as well as Linux CLI.

I am also a master photographer and have had several works published and many on display in local galleries in the Hampton Roads area. This is a hobby gone mad that started over thirty years ago.

Hometown: Pembroke Pines, Florida
Current Home: Harlem, Georgia

I’ve also lived in Palatka, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Hollister, and Pensacola, Florida, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach, Virginia as well as Springfield, Missouri.