Pete Fountain at Eighty.

Maxie Gundlach, Benny Goodman, Pete Fountain, Myra Lingle Earls, Greer Lingle, and Woody Allen, in that order, are the best clarinet players I've ever heard.  Pete is the only one I heard play after they were over the age of 80. I bet there were none better.  Here's to you PDL.  Oh didn't you ramble?

Thanks to Marina, Pete's GGGD somewhere along the line.

It Won't Be Water, but Fire Next Time.

I'm not sure how much difference that will make to the smitten.



Thanks to Judge C.

Neither A&M's Twelfth Man Nor the Forth Man in the Fire Have Appeared In Modern Times.

But that don't mean they won't.

Daniel Webster Reincarnated in Stark County, Ohio?

Thanks to Sara.

I Miss Notchibald "Notch" Johnson, His Beach Crew & the Fish Tacos.

Nice Looking Parrot

"I used to think Michael Palin was the funniest Palin on Earth." John Cleese. 

Thanks to Young Art.

Things Could Be Worse-And Have Been.

Thanks to Chad

Yep

Thanks? to Bruce

How Bout them Rebs? It Ain't Hate, It's Our Heritage.

Truth is, I don't blame Houston Nutt for makin the switch.  He's a poor boy from Fordyce just like the Bear who was tryin to make it big.  Houston had the misfortune of living in a time when parents could try to run the show.  The Bear had established himself well enough that he could invite USC to come to Alabama to kick some ass so he could safely recruit black players.  Sam "Bam" Cunningham made a hellofa debut. 

Congratulations to Alexander and Best Wishes to Second.

Alexander Lingle and Second Wife were married yesterday at the Coal Hill Cathedral.  

HFB to Mike

Margaret and Helen

100 Grand Bore

Margaret please tell Howard that 100,000 people will show up to a tractor pull if the entry fee is cheap enough.  Big deal. I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to ignore them and have some pie.

As I see it dear, if more than a hundred thousand dead civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan can be dismissed,  so can slightly less than a hundred thousand peckerwoods at a Beck rally.

If the civil rights of millions of gay and lesbian Americans are not important, then neither are the pathetic rants of almost a hundred thousand Palin addicts.

If millions of children without healthcare are  inconsequential then why should I give a rat’s ass about a hundred thousand shitheads who actually think Beck and Palin have something worthwhile to say?

As long as millions of American Muslims don’t have religious freedom, a hundred thousand Tea Party yahoos shouldn’t be allowed to have cable television.  It only seems fair…

I just can’t believe 87,000 people are dumb enough to buy that crap. If Beck and Palin want a government so focused on one God and one religion, they should visit the Middle East and see how that concept is working out.  It’s gotten to the point where you can’t distinguish Fox News from the Christian Broadcasting Network.   It’s nauseating.

Palin and Beck don’t care about you, me or anyone except themselves.  They are getting filthy rich pandering to angry white mobs so transparent in their racist feelings toward the President that a sheet of Saran Wrap would cast a darker shadow.

The greatest threat against America is not terrorism.  It’s not a mosque in Manhattan.  It’s not gay marriage.  It’s not healthcare reform.  And, believe it or not, it’s not even Beck or Palin.  The greatest threat against America are the tens of millions of Americans who won’t turn out to vote this November effectively giving power to 87,000 angry assholes.

Sarah Palin is an idiot.  Glenn Beck is a moron.  And I am sick of Fox News.  I mean it.  Really.

Thanks to Gene

HFB to TY