I was telling a friend the other day that the first commercial flight I ever took I just walked on (to a smoke-belching American Airlines DC-6) dressed in a suit…
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# Journal Entry
I have looked at the old photograph many times over the years, always focusing in on my father’s older brother, Pat, the one holding the violin case in this picture…
Now don’t get the idea that I’m going Lou Dobbs on you. The Birthers are a mob of cretins and hoodless KKKers. But in raising Barack Obama’s provenance they have…
I don’t know how you feel about paying some yahoo ex special ops, or Navy SEAL dude, or left over trained killer from Belgium or South Africa, and other Blackwater…
If there is one thing I know (and it probably is the one thing I know), it is cities. I made my living knowing about cities for over four decades as a…
It’s probably the equivalent of fighting words to suggest that President Obama might be something as antebellum South as a “houseboy,” but I am disappointed enough with him to take…
Thanksgiving will never be quite the same after watching that now famous video of Sarah Palin rambling nonsense in front of the guy jamming turkeys into some sort of gruesome…
I’m not sure I should write this piece; after all, my mother is still alive (93), and can still read. But what the hell. Porn. It lurks and smirks on the…
There is an old Latin saying—Fortuna Stulti Favet—Fortune Favors Fools. We all may know individual confirmations of this proverb; but historically, it does not appear to apply to nation states…
“Heroes” A Walmart television ad pumps their new “American Heroes” campaign. It’s always a good idea in America to hook your support of the troops to selling your crap made…