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My dad passed away almost thirty years ago...he was just sixty-five, but the damage done to his lungs from the smoking habit he picked up as...

The little rural two-story stucco Canal Point, Fl elementary school where i attended 3rd-6th grades in the early '60s is burning to the ...

Came across a story on the old Biff Burger chain today, and it brought memories flooding back... Friday night was date night in our little t...

 My son the life-long Star Wars nut finally at age 37 gets to utter that to his first-born son today...

Daughters taking off on the Hurricane Hype...                                      This from the older girl, always the more...un-PC one...

Wifey and I loved this so much because it seemed made just for us...it's from 1983 and it sure looks like B.C. or ID but we whacked off ...

Well, turned the big 65 today and officially fit in now with all the old farts here in the retirement mecca of Sebring FL. Ever since we cam...

A visit today from my favorite political cartoonist...three or so hours of good conversation, laughs, and lunch. Even though the deadbeat ...

My sweet grand girl got her private pilot license today...from her Amelia Earhart costume at age two to just after the examiner passed ...

My girl turns 65 today, took her to this goofy animal pic, dinner, and coldstone creamery friday and she loved it, 'cause that's t...

What is love? Total, complete, and selfless sacrifice. God sacrificed his Son for us and taught us that lesson. I and my four siblings ...

I had thought that DT had gotten this little troll to refocus on the real bidness at hand but I guess old habits and old totalitarians die h...

Started New Years morning here in Heartland Florida by the pool with good strong Folgers, enjoying a pretty blue sky dotted by light clouds ...

More just as a placeholder than anything else; the old blog has been pretty moribund for a while and no reason anybody would stop in... Bu...

This letter from one of the most brilliant economic advisers ever to the then drug czar Bennet could be retitled "An Open Letter to Jef...

What a good, kind, and unassuming man Lowell Hays is. I caught this recent story in a trade journal http://www.billboard.com/articles/news...

From a way too long comment at another blog mocking the Republican party for not living up to its hype and rep as the "party of smaller...

Today my baby turns 63... Eight years ago I did a little pic post on her 55th with granddaughter Grace at her dance recital. http://poet...

By: Ian O'Doherty,  columnist for the Irish Independent Tuesday November 8, 2016 — a day that will live in infamy, or the moment when...

My son, having grown up in the estate jewelry and firearms businesses, is now at 32 a very accomplished custom bench jeweler (The Jewelry Do...

THE MUSLIM PROBLEM Written by Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Centre. Forget the Syrian Civil ...

Immortalized in the best political 'toon in the homestretch of the most pivotal political season of our time...thanks Chris! http://ww...

At Chris Muir's Day by Day cartoon, the gang at the Double D ranch are infiltrated by anti-Trump protestors (really just rabble rousers ...

In an episode of my favorite online editorial cartoon, Chris Muir's Day by Day, the guys do some fence work at the ranch, and the wife o...

A few days ago when some blog awards were handed out, my favorite editorial cartoonist Chris Muir was a winner for his awesome Day By Day da...

Today is Tam's VFTP 10 year mark. She doesn't take comments anymore, so no congrats sent, but there is some benchmark overlap to not...

In a comment to a blog post wherein the writer is in search of the area code for 1994 so as to call and brag to her younger self about wher...

les paul died today . a guitar legend and father of the electric guitar -some would even argue the father of rock and roll- his name and hi...

you gotta give bobo credit: it's a pretty honest assessment of how efficient federally controlled healthcare would be. i guess instead o...

in his sad little attempt to play "hardball", this pathetic little fart sniffer actually provides a perfect foil for the new hamps...

irritated at a bumper sticker proclaiming "health care is a human right", the munchkin wrangler loosed a tirade that included tha...

seems an odd rule for a place where shooting is the point. but discussion at tam's centered around exactly that rule at the range she fr...