Memorial Day, 2021, With Special Prayers
Yesterday, I had lunch with my favorite surviving veteran, Command Sergeant-Major Fred Barnett, 88, and his adopted Korean son, Young. Regular YMCA patrons for about 4 years, they stopped coming when Covid shut down...
Famous Common Places I Have Known, Ma Martin’s on North Lime
Rick Wilson's really poor affectation of hillbilly mannerisms and slang put me in mind of one of my fondest memories of my college days, a bar on the other side of Lexington, Kentucky where...
The “Politics” of Global Cooling…
...which according to Nature and Natural Law, has begun.
Again.
This guy's name is Peter Temple, and there is a 2015 and 2019 version, only mildly edited.
https://youtu.be/lZw4DdocxN0
Mr Temple is speaking of an era which, even if...
Famous Common People I Have Known, SGT Marty Gays in the Military, an Old...
"Policies Concerning Homosexuals" have changed since I was an Army defense lawyer in the closing years of the Vietnam War. "Being boarded out" was a large part of my defense work.
I'd be interested to...
The Justified Bloody Lip
OK, it's time we brought this up.
In March 2016 I wrote about "The Justified Bloody Nose" because some old coot my age at a Trump rally cold-cocked a 20-year old paid bully sent there...
Wyatt Earp’s Justifications for Killing off the Cowboys
"For my handling of the situation at Tombstone, I have no regrets. Were it to be done over again, I would do exactly as I did at that time. If the outlaws and their friends and allies imagined that they could intimidate or exterminate...