This isn’t a blog post per se. This is something I didn’t do earlier, and I wish I had done it before. You may or may not know there are two different parts to this website. There are the blogs you see here, 74 of them dating back to late July. We’re getting more than …
“Imagine there’s no heaven …” As the story goes, when John Lennon wrote “Imagine,” he wasn’t setting out to write an anthem. He just wanted to write a good song about all the things that stand in the way of people being truly happy and then ask people to consider what the world could be …
Socialism? In America? Never happen. There was one time it might have happened, but a man named Franklin D. Roosevelt prevented it. Sadly, none of the people who hated Socialism gave him credit for it. Heck, the actually tried to oust him from office witha coup midway through his first term. The United States in …
Meet Dale McLaughlin, a complete and total lunatic for love. McLaughlin, 28, lives in Scotland, and the woman he loves lives on the Isle of Man, about 25 miles across the Irish Sea. He couldn’t legally travel to see her because of coronavirus restrictions. So he decided to ride a jet ski across the water …
TOUGH TO BEAT A GUY WHO CROSSES THE SEA FOR LOVE Read More »
“You typically don’t use the term ‘congratulations’ when someone just stole a bank.” Until I heard this quote, I had never heard of Charlie Kirk or his youth organization Turning Point USA. It’s entirely possible that English might not be this young fellow’s first language. I would rather believe that than believe young Charles is …
SOMEONE ‘STOLE’ A BANK ISN’T JUST GOOFY, IT’S WRONG Read More »
“I think we could be trending toward secession.” It isn’t often I quote Rush Limbaugh, but in our current situation, it’s at least interesting if not appropriate. When the history of the last 30 years is written, he will be one of the chief characters in the decline and fall of American comity. One of …
“It’s the fabled automatic.” About six years ago, a friend from high school asked me to do a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. It was quite a process, and I wound up writing it for my previous website in four separate posts of 25 each. First 100-76, then 75-51, then 50-26 …
How many people have three calendar days in a row that are significant in the story of their life? I do, even though they happened in 1949, 1990 and 1969. The first two both happened in Southern California — my birth on Dec. 11, 1949, and the auto accident that was the closest I ever …
It was 30 years ago today … Exactly 30 years. It was my first December in Los Angeles, and I had just celebrated my 41st birthday the day before.I had been staying with my friend Mick my first few months in Southern California, but it late November I had found an apartment in Anaheim and …
“Could have had give, could have had take. We could’ve made anything we wanted to make. So we made ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ and all the popular songs. We made a land where crap is king and the good don’t last too long..” The group is Spock’s Beard, the album is “The Kindness of Strangers” and …
