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

Fifteen individual musicians or groups that I liked who I wish were still popular and/or still alive:  Roy Orbison, James Brown, Chicago,...

Edd "Kookie"  Byrnes (c. 1959) Of "77 Sunset Strip," ABC-TV hit from 1958-1964.  Cooool!                              ...

Anne Hillerman takes over for father Tony with "Spider Woman's Daughter" Cruisin’ and perusin’ on a January afternoon i...

Comical headline of the week ending December 6:  “U. S. Unemployment Hits 5 Year Low.”  Obama’s poll numbers are tanking and he just won th...

On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941–a date which will live in infam...

Merry Christmas from the Obama Economy. (left) Are school officials wimps?  Maybe not in today’s vocabulary but calling off the high sc...

Some people like Barack Obama consider themselves geniuses.  Maybe he is a genius if we count the facts that he has never had to produce a ...

(I wrote this for my column  in  a local paper in November of 2005.  I think it is still appropriate for Veteran's Day, 2013) Can y...

Most of the liberal crowd will stick to Obama’s coattails regardless of how much he screws up this once great country.  We all know the loc...

Bill Goodykoontz, the movie reviewer for the Arizona Republic, recently listed what he considers to be the best thriller films ever made. ...

A friend from Pennsylvania on Google+ posted this the other day and I liked it so much I want to pass it on. My normal blogs are about 500 w...

I think the Republicans made a mistake trying to defund Obamacare.  I admire Senator Cruz for trying but he was basically whistling in Dixi...

A few months ago the Scottsdale City Council approved plans for apartments to be built on the former Pitre Buick property on McDowell.  Ser...

The good news is that Obama’s speech last night was only 16 minutes long.  It didn't cause me to miss part of the Diamonbacks' game...

I love the so called “dreamers” who feel that they should be accorded some sort of special citizenship privileges because they were brought...

http://www.shorpy.com/node/15828?size=_original&ref=157286#caption (go to above URL for closeup) Ah, the good old days of 1956 ...

Sometimes retail stores pick an unfortunate style of type face for their signs.  This is a good example of one.  A lot of horny guys will ...

I love Ramirez's cartoons.  It's a treat to see them about once a week when that liberal loser Benson takes a day off at the Republi...

I hope everyone is as “Trayvoned out” as I am because frankly, everything is going as scheduled with his followers and pseudo-followers who...

There is a state senator in Texas named Wendy Davis who is being hailed by those self righteous types who are forever fighting the supposed...