Bull moose!

There are a lot of things a Patriot has to be angry about today. Most of them in a cosmic sense are small and insignificant. However, there are always a few things that matter. That cannot be overlooked. That need to be embraced or engaged or fought. Injustice, intolerance, and inequity to name a few.

Few people in American history had so much to do in such little time as Theodore Roosevelt. Who I consider one of the finest men and leaders in American history. The Angry Patriot is not about criticism - although there may be some of that - it's about responsibility. It's about acting accordingly. It's about taking a risk to do something great.

As such, I think I'll embrace T-Rex as my mentor. He's dead so I don't think he'll mind.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

Teddy Roosevelt The Man in the Arena: Citizenship in a Republic
Address delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910.