“God Bless America” was written by Irving Berlin in 1918, and revived in 1938 with war looming, and made famous by Kate Smith, whose 1938 radio rendition was a national hit. (See if you can spot Ronald Reagan. If you’re…
Category: Race and Culture
Famous Common People I Have Known, Mick Hensley
Another in a series about common people I wish you could have known. I was born in a small town of just over a thousand people. It was a company town that ran the length of a creek that hugged…
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to be Hoodies
(First written in 2012 while George Zimmerman awaited trial) Dr Thomas Sowell used Geraldo Rivera, of all people, to restate a practical, need-to-know law of survival that has nothing to do with any legal right to walk the streets as…
In Defense of the Justified Bloody Nose
You know the news story of the Trump supporter who sucker-punched a Trump rally protester. Actually it was more of a sucker-forearm shiver to the chops, which makes more sense inasmuch as the puncher was 75 and the punchee was a…
Groupies
(Newsbreak: Several groups, including some members of Congress, have called for the revocation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Bill Cosby in 2002.) Definition: “A groupie is generally considered a devoted female fan of a band or musical performer.”…