Skip to content
Don MacLeod
Don MacLeod

22,000+ Wake-Ups Into This Lifetime

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Marketing
  • About
    • Notable Don MacLeod’s
    • Portfolio
  • Contact
  • Terms and Conditions
    • Privacy Policy
    • Anti-Spam Policy
    • Copyright Notice
    • DMCA Compliance
    • Earnings Disclaimer
    • FTC Compliance
    • Medical Disclaimer
Don MacLeod

22,000+ Wake-Ups Into This Lifetime

Tag: government shutdown

Culture

Political Exhaustion Is the Carryover Balance From 2025

Posted on January 1, 2026January 2, 2026 By Don MacLeod

Happy New Year The calendar flipped. That was the clean part. Everything else came with us — the noise, the backlog, the unresolved messes that never quite ended, they just lost their headline slot and waited to reappear. Political exhaustion isn’t something that suddenly arrived in 2025. It accumulated. Day…

Read more
Media

America’s Not Working—And Neither Is Congress

Posted on November 4, 2025November 3, 2025 By Don MacLeod

We’ve hit that point again. Government shutdown season. Cue the outrage, the speeches, the finger-pointing. One side blames the other, and somewhere between “fiscal responsibility” and “moral outrage,” the actual governing stops. Let’s be clear — both parties built this mess. Chuck Schumer and Mike Johnson are just the faces…

Read more
Culture

USAA Missed the Easiest Win in Marketing — Standing by Their Own Members

Posted on October 18, 2025October 12, 2025 By Don MacLeod

I’ve been a USAA customer for years — checking, auto, insurance, the works. And like most of their members, I joined because USAA wasn’t just a bank. It was our bank thanks to my father’s service in the United States Air Force.  This is built for people who serve, for…

Read more

Search

Recent Posts

  • Six More Weeks of Winter: The Groundhog Has Spoken (And We’re Not Okay)
  • Food Companies Discovered Protein Sells — So Now Everything Has It
  • The Snow Globe Effect: When Winter Stops Being Charming
  • Six Years of Receipts — And The Groceries Aren’t Getting Cheaper
  • Doomsday Clock 2026: Closer to Catastrophe, Further From Solutions
  • Area 51’s “Dorito” Aircraft Reappears With Military Code About Beer and Cheese
  • The AI CEO Who Actually Read the Room — And It’s On Fire
  • Two Dead, Three Weeks. The Civil War Simulation Didn’t Account for Body Count
  • Winter Storm Fatigue Meets News Fatigue — And Now We’re All Just Tired
  • The Coast Guard Did Its Job Perfectly — Rescuing Someone From a Completely Avoidable Situation
©2026 Don MacLeod | WordPress Theme by SuperbThemes