Compass Star Wordsmith

Last Full Measure

Does personal sacrifice for public good yield results? Does committing to goals beyond self create universal change? Does human nature overrule human…

May 26 • ric leczel

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Cinco de Wedo

Can white people celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Can brown people celebrate St. Patty's Day? Are cultural appropriations a real thing? Or just a made up reason…

May 11 • ric leczel

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April 2026

Shots Fired. Again.

The Most Dangerous Job in the Republic. A single bullet bends the arc of history, the consequences lasting centuries. Happy 250 America! Hope you can…

Apr 27 • ric leczel

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Selling My Soul

The price per piece has increased over the path of my life. Why is one’s soul so cheap in youth? Is it the age-old rule of supply and demand? The more…

Apr 6 • ric leczel

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March 2026

Drunk Driving. Again

A spate of celebrity repeat impaired-driving arrests bring back memories of the bad old days. Where is MADD lately? Is it time for alcohol-interrupters…

Mar 30 • ric leczel

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Left of Boom

The world is a prison yard. Who do you want as your Shot Caller?

Mar 9 • ric leczel

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February 2026

One Dimensional Life

Binaries, Bad Faith, and the Meat Suit: A Point-Counterpoint on Free Will, Biology, and Gender

Feb 23 • ric leczel

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Kill Until Dead

How we killed the center: An assault on neutral culture creates a fractured nation that can only be governed at the extremes.

Feb 15 • ric leczel

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Cowboys Always Live

Shoot to kill or leave to live. Emotion bullets cause more damage than silver ones. Living thru chaos propels one for living on the edge. Living on the…

Feb 1 • ric leczel

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January 2026

Entry-Level Careers

Can we ever have a productive conversation about immigration? Here's my attempt.

Jan 12 • ric leczel

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Difference of Opinion

Personal opinions have become "my lived truth", erasing the value of opinions and eliminating the purpose of facts. Have we wandered apart again for…

Jan 5 • ric leczel

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December 2025

Such and Such

Idioms, aphorisms, bromides, colloquialisms, collocations, and the like control our speech. Verbal crutches and vocal frys build linguistic bridges to…

Dec 28, 2025 • ric leczel

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