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Quality.
Quality has a yen for resurrection. It endures; it repeats. Quality has great legs. Caravaggio’s “The Cardsharps”, c. 1594. Oil on canvas, […]
Happy 74th, WJC.
Happy 74th, WJC. No American came further. No human worked harder. And you always come ready to play. Happy birthday, Wild Bill. […]
J. Dan Hull, Jr. (March 11, 1900 – October 13, 1987)
J. Dan Hull, II, 1933. Above is his Yale Ph.D picture. Class act. American dream overachiever and gentlemen’s gentlemen. Authentic and honest–and […]
Knoxville, Tennessee
Since the mid-1930s, the Big Dog in Knoxville has been the federally-owned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), America’s biggest public power provider. $11.8 […]
August 2020
Good morning. August 1, 2020. Half of America is batshit crazy. The other half won’t talk about it. They might lose their […]
American Folkway.
Confederate flags aren’t hate symbols or swastikas. Learn American history, culture, folkways and geography. Get culturally literate. Most Americans aren’t small-minded, easily […]
Secret Police.
Folks, if you have trouble with federal secret police manhandling protestors, demonstrators and dissidents, maybe Socialism just isn’t for you. Stick to […]
Practicing law? It’s never about you, Jack.
From a comment–the kind of comment we’ve been making here since 2005–I made on ATL Surrogate this morning about advice to new […]
Amarcord
November 22, 1963. A Friday. 2:40 PM Central Time. Air Force One. Dallas. Federal Judge Sarah Hughes (N.D. Tex.) swore him in.
The New “Liberals.”
Not one of my political views, cultural values or causes have changed since 1974. But I’m now called a Racist at least […]
The Truth.
#SpeechAndExpression Use it or lose it. You’ve Nothing without it. Zilch. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Good Speech. Bad Speech. Mean Speech. Loving Speech. […]
Ocean
“ª”Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean’s roar”¬ “ªPlay for free, I play for me and play a whole lot […]
Stop BLM
Don’t be fooled. The organization #BlackLivesMatter is collectivist group-think garbage. Stop this mixed band of GenY muppets, Antifa, losers, ingrates and frauds […]
7.12.2020
Tonight after midnight (circa 1:45 AM) I’ll have 34 years sober, clean and lucky. Thanks Larry, Helen, Valerie and Mom.
Easter, 1916: “All changed, changed utterly…”
On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, Irish republican leaders staged an Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. The uprising, the most […]
The New White Liberals
Every day “˜white liberals’ destroy more ideas, words, history and good people than Pol Pot. Get off your knees. Stand up to […]
BLM Deux
Can we talk about BLM? I’m a lifelong classic liberal. Voted mainly Dem (until recently) my whole life, worked on Hill for […]
Pickett’s March
157 years. July 3, 1863. 2:05 to 2:30 PM. Gettysburg. Mainly a march. Not a charge. A hot day. Over 1100 CSA […]
Americans: Born Outlaws.
Americans are born outlaws. 2021? Year 232 of our current form of business. Still a very new nation. Happy 4th, Everyone.
Jean Kennedy Smith (1927-2020)
Jean Kennedy Smith (1927-2020). RIP. I liked her. I liked her feisty lawyer’s lawyer husband Steve, too. Quiet, tough behind-the-scenes upbeat can-do […]
All words have value.
“”˜Tis needful that the most immodest word/Be look’d upon and learn’d.” “” Wild Bill Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II Image: HST […]




























