Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

Category: Featured

A response to today’s NY Times Editorial on Gun Control

Let’s take a look at today’s New York Times editorial, titled An Assault on Everyone’s Safety, shall we? The Glock 19 is a semiautomatic pistol so reliable that it is used by thousands of law enforcement agencies around the world, including the New York Police Department, to protect the police and the public. On Saturday, [...]

Thirty-Eight

We all have people who touch our lives in many ways. One of those folks was Mike Casalini, the first manager I had at Target that took me under his wing and mentored me professionally. When I was just an hourly employee, Mike saw in me some sort of future potential and helped me discover [...]

Memorial Day 2009

I’m a third generation Boy Scout. Like my father and grandfather before me, I chose to stay the course and complete the requirements to become an Eagle Scout. Each Eagle must complete, as a part of the requirements for the rank, a project involving community service and leadership of others. While my own project isn’t [...]