Reflections on music, movies, TV, sports, American History, and other stuff.

"Excuse me m'am, excuse me sir, sorry.......Uh, I only have one item. Would you mind if I went to the front of the line?" Ye...

New Speaker of the House John Boehner is a baby boomer. No extra charge for tears. (AP) On January 1, 2011, 14 days from the time I am writ...

A typical "juke joint" in Louisiana circa 1930s. You probably wouldn't want to "mouth off" in there on a Saturday n...

The console model TV in the middle looks like ours from 1949 This morning I received an email from Cox Communications telling me they are ad...

"You have to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?" (flixster) What are “guy" films? For one thing...

Here is a display of Libby's food products from the 1950's. Notice the loose cans in the front. That was a gimmick to entice more s...

If you read my blog post of 3-30-09 on azcentral (http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/Jim8413/49617) you know how stupid I think political...

Setting the record straight ….Liberal op-ed writer for the Washington Post, Dana Milbank, says in his November 3 column that on election nig...

Frank Conrad and his crew reporting the election returns on November 2, 1920. You can tell we are getting down to business relating to the u...

The Campus at Soutern Cal. Beautiful and expensive. Froma Harrop writes for the Providence Journal. The Republic usually picks up her colu...

Below: The Smart Car for $17,600. Top: The Nissan Versa for $12,000. Which would you want? A couple of weeks ago I saw an ad in the Repub...

How do you expect me to look? I just saw my poll numbers and the ratings for Fox News at the same time! (StarPlus) Obama obviously has nev...

It took the U. S. Army to safely escort "The Little Rock Nine" into Central High School in 1957 after Arkansas Governor Orval Faub...

For probably political reasons, Obama went to church last week for the fourth time in 19 months. Not a sterling record but who am I to say ...

New Mexico, The Land of Enchantment I found some interesting information this week about New Mexico’s attitude toward illegal immigration. ...

Megyn Kelly of "America Live" weekdays on Fox News Poor Kim Guilfoyle. Kim is a raven haired beauty, a successful lawyer, and get...

Schoenling "Little Kings", a staple of Cincinnati brewing. Whether we call it suds, a cold one, a draw, a brewski, a dime draft, o...

The Kindle, is this the future of books? I received an email the other day that mentioned some items that we took for granted in the past bu...

Dr. Laura is out the door After saying “nigg*er” eleven times on her radio talk show of August 10, 63 year old psychologist Laura Schlessing...

Common sense is an interesting subject and it applies to about everything. You wouldn’t wear white socks with a tuxedo, you wouldn’t wander...