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Showing posts with label There will always be an England. So what?. Show all posts
Jul 7, 2015

Screw Canada

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I tried to raise my children to be absolutely cynical about anything and anybody having anything to do with governments. They were urged to ...
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Feb 14, 2015

Vocabulary Lesson

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Optimism: That trait leading a loophole-bound citizen to stuff his wallet with all the  Federal Reserve Cartoons his modest circumstances pe...
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Dec 24, 2014

Another Shot in the Dark (or) Fleet Street Explains All

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One event.  Two headlines and two ledes: --- Tense scenes in Missouri after police shoot another black teen  BY ERIC M. JOHNSON (R...
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Sep 17, 2014

...an' I'll take the low road

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A romantic impulse commands me to cheer the Scot "Yes" forces,  and  I dream of Highland independence -- at long last -- from the ...
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Sep 6, 2014

A little car porn while I'm warming up

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My dad certainly saw this car, and may have been in it. Assigned to the staff of the Algona POW camp, it was in service during the years whe...
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Mar 11, 2014

Beer for the warriors; no REMFs need apply

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By late October, 1944, all was foretold on the great battlefields of Europe. The death of the Nazi was a matter of when, not if. But Winst...
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Feb 23, 2014

Scatter shots; Indian Country

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Somebody loved those four shot-dead Paiutes up in the high desert of backwater California, 200 miles or more from the nearest Starbucks. The...
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Feb 12, 2014

The media grinds it out

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We need to make allowances for English commentary on firearms.  After all, they are well into the third generation of their official eeeekag...
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Feb 10, 2014

World Leaders -- Armed and Ready

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You read Churchill's epic -- all six volumes -- twice, once for a quick overview of how this guy and his country operated 1935-1945. O...
Jan 29, 2014

A blizzard in paradise

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One late-winter day a long time ago, I was King of the World, a legend in my own mind. The Henderson, back from six months in the mysterious...
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Jan 18, 2014

A warmup; anarchy; a little light porn for desert rats

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Assemble the trumpet chorus of tall vestals in flowing white gowns.  We need to rehearse for the big day tomorrow. At the coordinates of C...
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Jan 17, 2014

Skinny Amends

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I keep putting off a moral obligation: apologizing to Ben Bernanke. The tanked United States economy is not totally his fault. He's a to...
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Jan 15, 2014

Wet your kangaroo down, Sport.

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Mad dogs and Englishmen founded Australia and  taught it everything it knows. So the Melbourne Aussies  (probably with great enthusiasm from...
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Dec 25, 2013

Merry Christmas, Friends

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Sep 17, 2013

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It is true. Global cooling is icing up the Northwest Passage, and Exxon Tankers will have no more luck passing the Bering Straits than Capta...
Sep 9, 2013

Say, Tipper, is that the ice man I hear coming?

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Or, There Goes the Northwest Passage Again as the Arctic freezes over in blatant defiance of the wishes of former Vice President Gore and...
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Aug 23, 2013

The Bastard King of Handguns*

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It was time for a chore, pawing through the parts inventory of a deceased friend. Little on the planet will humiliate a man more. You amble ...
Aug 16, 2013

A Pound, a Pound, My Kingdom for a Pound

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Things are tough in Merrye Olde Theme Parke these days, and at first I thought  this was a made-up deal -- Parliament looking for ways to st...
Jul 24, 2013

My latest pome

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I be not a ze, nor am I a zir. My dad took a look and said I ain't her. So "him" I am stuck with for all of my alls, a cap...
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Jul 13, 2013

The knock-knock jury

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By decree of all the news jockeys, I am required to identify this  period in American History as "Verdict Watch." In the latest ...