Salty Ginger Talk Newsletter

NOVEMBER 19, 2025

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November 19, 2025

A former vegan chef in California now runs her own cattle ranch in Texas

Our take:  This is an interesting but predictable article. A former vegan chef in Los Angeles has transitioned into a rancher in Texas. She describes the progression of her views and business practices from a hardcore vegan serving people who shared her militant beliefs in California to slowly realizing that her beliefs were built on flawed logic, the people she thought she shared values with were actually cruel and judgmental of those who disagreed with them, and that oppressive government oversight in Los Angeles made doing business there unsustainable long term. The article is worth a read as there are many valuable lessons here.

COURTESY: FOX NEWS

Senators ask the DC Circuit Court to suspend an activist judge pending an impeachment vote

Our take: James Boasberg is a federal district judge in Washington, DC. He was appointed to the bench in 2011 by then President Obama. Recently, he has issued a myriad of controversial decisions that have negatively impacted President Trump, among them ordering former VP Mike Pence to testify to a grand jury about events leading up to the January 6th riots, offering probation instead of jail time to a former FBI agent who falsified emails to surveil Trump and his campaign in 2016, and issuing a nationwide injunction preventing the deportation of illegal immigrants who were members of the Tren De Aragua gang.

His latest controversial ruling is around issuing nondisclosure orders to tech companies that were told by the Biden administration they must provide information on Republican politicians and operatives as part of the “Arctic Frost” scandal.

We are not including this article to advocate for any political position, but rather to raise the issue of how we deal with judges who overstep their authority and start making policy decisions and changing the application of law from the bench. Federal judges are entrusted with a tremendous amount of autonomous power.

They are the arbiters of truth and take an oath to apply and interpret the law in the most fair and impartial way possible. How do we deal with someone who is clearly not following this oath yet has received a lifetime appointment to this position? It’s a pretty scary prospect when you think about it.

COURTESY: MSN

Our take: A pilot who was traveling in a jump seat in the cockpit tried to cut the engines mid-flight. The flight crew subdued him and made an emergency landing, where the man was detained by authorities. Joseph Emerson stated he was despondent over a friend's recent death, had not slept for 40 hours, and had taken psychedelic mushrooms a few days earlier. He stated he thought he was dreaming, and pulling the levers to shut off the engines would wake him from his dream. 

To his credit, Emerson has owned his mistakes and pled guilty, stating the incident forced him to deal with his mental health issues and alcoholism and has made him a better husband, father, and member of his community. Emerson has clearly lost his job as a pilot following the incident.

In recent years, there has been talk by major carriers about showing preferential treatment to perceived minority applicants like African Americans or women in the training and hiring of pilots. This incident is one more piece of evidence why it is paramount for the hiring process of life-or-death jobs to be blind to color, gender, or any other superficial characteristic.

We need the best people in these roles, regardless of how much sunblock they need or if they stand or sit to pee. Good (and bad) pilots come in all races and genders. Let’s make sure we have the right people in the cockpit for goodness’ sake. 

COURTESY: MSN

Tip of the day for learning not to care what other people think about you

Develop self-awareness, humble yourself, and kill your ego

One of the most valuable things I learned during my boxing career is that the ego has an intense desire to believe that other people are worried about it, to the point where it will manufacture attention when there is none. There are many positives to ego, but this is not one of them.

Your ego will not only make you imagine that people are thinking about you, but you’ll also create scenarios where people have to think about you so you’re back in a familiar space of carrying about what people think.

This reminds me of a guy who once came into my boxing gym.

He wasn’t a bad fighter. In fact, he won his first eight amateur bouts. On his 9th bout, he was soundly beaten. This happens to all fighters — especially in the amateur levels where you’re supposed to learn by losing — but he decided it was too much.

He invited a bunch of girls to come to see him fight. I remember him talking to me before the fight, joking about how he would have to sneak out because these different girls didn’t know each other. I don’t think the girls affected his performance, but losing in front of them ruined his ego.

Unfortunately, he never returned to boxing because he couldn’t deal with this new uncomfortable experience. He created a situation for his ego to have the pressure of attention on it, coupled with the illusion of other people caring.

Losing the fight made him decide never to fight again. Despite displaying natural talent, he could not withstand the public execution of his ego. The pain of losing hurt more because he believed that other people cared if he won or lost.

They may feel bad for you or mock you for a moment, but most people are more concerned with their problems than your life.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotions.” – Dale Carnegie