“And while we’re on the topic of grandparents, let me tell you another Mamaw story. Now, my mamaw died shortly before I left for Iraq, in 2005. And when we went through her things, we found 19 loaded handguns. Now, the thing is, they were stashed all over her house. Under her bed, in her …
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“Dear Voters, Please vote for me, thus breaking the Seventh Seal and incurring Armageddon …” Trek Thunder Kelly of Venice, California, was one of more than 100 candidates on the ballot in the recall election for California governor in 2003. If you don’t remember him or in fact never heard of him, it’s because he …
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“Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya …”— Gullah spiritual song When someone wants to accuse someone else of being naive in their dealings with others, they accuse them of thinking we should all hold hands and sing “Kumbaya.” I wonder if any of them even know what it means. I was 11 years old and spending a …
With all the controversy last week surrounding the drunk country singer’s rendition of our national anthem at Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby. I’ve got to be honest. I have never liked our national anthem. We have at least half a dozen patriotic songs, two of them written by George M. Cohan, that would be …
Who is the unhappiest politician in the United States this afternoon? Uh huh. It’s Donald Trump. That’s because with the withdrawal of President Biden from his re-election bid, all of a sudden Trump is the unfit old man in the race. Trump is the one who would be every bit as old as Biden is …
Fake news. Fakier news. Fakiest news. Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after his ear was hit by a shard of glass from his teleprompter in Butler, Pa., Donald Trump was doing what he does best. Playing golf. This picture shows the opposite site of Trump’s head from his ouchie, but people who saw him …
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One was probably fake, the other probably not. Both are just the latest factors in what it turning out to be a very important presidential election. Depending on who you believe, the failure to protect one particular candidate will result in America heading over the falls, jumping the shark or going down the drain. Choose …
I discovered a really good writer — an author I like a great deal — in the strangest way. I joined Facebook in 2008, mostly to keep track of family, friends and people from my past. The two largest groups are people from my high school graduating class and fraternity brothers from college, with former …
I had something of an epiphany when I was thinking about the horrific creation by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025. There you go again. Anything conservative is horrific, eh? I could say yes when it comes to Trumpanzee Christian Nationalists who call themselves conservatives these days, but that’s not the point. When I was young, …
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I’m not sure there was ever a movie that surprised me more or moved me as much as Australian director Peter Weir’s “Gallipoli.” Both of my grandfathers fought in World War I, but both were Americans stationed in France. There weren’t any Americans fighting the Turks at Gallipoli, and I had never even heard of …
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