Toby Keith, Fuzzy Lines, and Justice

So far on social media, you can’t get canceled for being a country music fan. At least I don’t think the Thought Police have gone that far in America. And that is a good thing, because I am a country music fan. One of my favorites — I know because I listen to him a […]
What we can all learn from American Ninja Warrior — and even the Olympics

If you aren’t familiar with American Ninja Warrior, it is not a person dressed in black, silent as a snail but faster than a hummingbird. It is a TV show, and it is good. Now if you are a regular reader, you know that when I say “good” I don’t mean that in the “good […]
Them’s fightin’ words!

I learned the phrase that is the title of this post back in the 60’s on TV westerns. But it was already in use in 1917, and maybe earlier. “Fightin’ words,” I learned, were words spoken to someone that provoked them to respond physically. Usually it a was a good guy saying, “You’re a crook” […]