Ideas have consequences! In 1978, Waylon and Willie advised, “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.”
Within a generation, Paula Cole was asking, “Where have all the cowboys gone?”
The Giant lady’s voice in self-checkout is very kind—until she finds out what item number you’ve just entered. She does regain her composure quickly, though.
“Please move your…BANANAS!?…to the bag.”
One important thing I learned from this week’s spy balloon drama is that the great Jimmy Webb (“MacArthur Park,” “Rhinestone Cowboy,” “Highwayman,” “Wichita Lineman”) wrote the 5th Dimension hit “Up, Up, and Away.”
Look at that pathetic and obvious balloon, just following a straight, predictable line across the sky. And one of the jets is right on target! The Commie spies of my youth were better than this.
I went to an Orioles game in 1987/88, when Lynn was playing for Baltimore, and on the outfield screen they played a highlight reel of his great catches to the Spider-Man cartoon theme.
Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the U.S. “has detected and is tracking a high altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now.”
I’m sad to say that the edits they made to the Rockford Files theme song for season 2 were an absolute hack job. At least a pre-mustache Gerald McRaney makes an appearance. And with God as my witness, season 1 had a pre-WKRP Gordon Jump.
Two small monkeys that went missing from the Dallas Zoo were found inside a closet in an abandoned home, the latest in a string of mysterious incidents at the zoo this month https://on.wsj.com/40gfa7z
Mayor Aftab Pureval's bizarre pregame insult of Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes probably didn't end the Bengals' Super Bowl chances.
But it was stupid regardless. | @jackbutler4815https://trib.al/vR3nWmU
report about Arizona State's School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL), an important institute that's leading the way for similar ones around the country.
This is obviously a reference to a Silver Spoons episode from 1985, when Edward Stratton ran up the Empire State Building for a fundraiser called “Race with Eagles.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OQTQF9lJdVE…
Back at ye olde stomping grounds. William & Mary must be one of the few schools in the country to erect statues of early presidents in the past 20 years. These are of James Monroe and John Tyler (and Tyler’s family).
One scholar called Burns "the greatest songwriter Britain has produced." Here's a good performance of one of his best songs, and greatest expressions of his republican sympathies, "For a' that and a' that"--performed in front of Queen Elizabeth II.
In the mid-90s, the BBC aired a program about Maya Angelou's Burns-inspired pilgrimage to Scotland. It features some very good performances of Burns's songs.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tHjrA4znKDM…
I can see this becoming a big issue during the primary debates. “The governor claims to be qualified—but no classified documents have been found in his home!”
Report: Classified Docs Found at Former VP Mike Pence's Indiana Home
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/report-classified-docs-found-at-former-vp-pences-indiana-home/…