Chappy's Free Chicken

  The stretch of highway, known as HWY 61, intersects HWY 180 North of Deming, NM in a little one-holer of a “town” called Faywood, NM. It ends at the bisection with HWY 152 a few miles North of what they call San Juan, NM. Mind you, of the three “towns,” only Deming looks like a municipality which could successfully sustain any kind of human life beyond a week of isolated camping scenario. Justin considered them “drive through blink” towns. If you blink when you drive through them, you’ll miss their very existence. Justin Andrew Conrad. Born in Monterey, TN the year before 9/11 and now serving in an Infantry Platoon in an Armored Battalion at Fort Bliss, TX. Fort Bliss is the home of “America’s Tank Division,” 1 st Armored Division. Justin still could not understand why an Infantryman, any Infantrymen, was sent to the barren wasteland of West Texas to work their tradecraft. Every Infantryman knows this: when an 11B is assigned to a Heavy Armored Brigade Combat Team, you end up ...

            I am uncertain who said this first, but I will attribute it to Lieut. Gen. Milford Beagle when he addressed our Command and General Staff Officer College class earlier this academic year. He was “briefing” the class. Regarding his technique in presenting, he suggested, “Tell them what you’re going to tell, tell them, and then tell them what you told them.” His statement resonated with me. Like most things, when it clicks, you seem to hear or see it or recognize it more frequently. This “frequency illusion” is the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. Kate Kershner and Austin Henderson write, “This cognitive bias occurs when something you have noticed or recently learned suddenly seems to appear everywhere. But is it really appearing more frequently or is your brain just paying more attention to it?” [1] I reckon, my brain is just paying more attention to it … and that is a good thing. Or is it? Kershner and Henderson further s...