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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...

it was predictable that with the teevee industry making almost nothing new except "reality" shows, there would eventually be one f...

as awe-inspiring as it was, and as hard as it is to believe that it's been forty years, it could well be that the accomplishments of arm...

"fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice , shame on me..." i'd say nobody could be that dumb, but we know better don't w...

an article on the probable next phase of the housing meltdown resulted in a pretty long string of comments; lots of crass and ignorant prick...

it's easy enough to see who pulls the strings in moscow ; the pretty puppet goes through the moves while the plotting puppeteer makes th...

*********************** YOU'RE STILL THE ONE! *********************** jtc

wifey and i drove up to north ga. monday to close the sale of my son's former house up here. the transaction went smoothly at the attor...

annoying but effective teevee pitchman billy mays was found dead this morning... he lives near here in the tampa area and was on a plane tha...

last year, on the fifteenth anniversary of my dad's passing at age sixty five, i wrote a bit about him, and it seems appropriate for tod...

i'd always liked the '54 chevy trucks...the sculpted and relatively homely design was the last before the straight streamline shapes...

wow. thirty years as an ffl and i had exactly three on-site inspections from atf. and while i had a couple of interactions with the fdle (fl...

apparently, the invasion from outer space has begun... our little german friend may be exagerrating a bit, though...that pebble-sized meteor...

on that at least, huffin' po's michael rowe got it right. so somehow, the octogenarian loonybird (whose weapon of choice to take up ...

my girl turns 55 today, two-and-a-half months ahead of me. and she still gets carded when buying wine at the grocery store...no kidding. w...

today is the 65th anniversary of the all-out allied invasion that turned the tide of ww11 and quite possibly won the war. so when the googl...