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1. 2 days ago on Frazz

   Apparently, it didn’t pay …

2. 2 days ago on Frazz

   One of my favorite Paul Simon songs is from his second (real) album with Art Garfunkel, “A Simple Desultory Philippic”, a clever send-up of Bob Dylan and political issues of the mid-sixties. I’ve been known to issue my own philippics (desultory and otherwise) in this forum, from time-to-time.

3. 4 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Depends. Were his lips moving?

4. 6 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   (Sorry if this appears out of synch, I had to correct a typo.)

   Unlike Trump, FDR had a moral compass, and walked as well as Trump dances.

   Historians agree that America has had its share of bad presidents. At the top of their list is Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson, who book-ended Lincoln. Pierce was a totally corrupt neophyte to politics who repealed the Missouri compromise prohibiting slavery in the newly acquired midwest states. Buchanan was another Yankee who supported slavery in the South, and essentially guaranteed the start of the Civil War. Johnson made sure that Reconstruction would be worse than slavery (in different ways) for the “emancipated” Black citizens for a century.

   And guess who’s Number Four on their list?

5. 6 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Wow, Larry. How do you brush you teeth with your tongue so firmly planted there? That’s the problem with dripping sarcasm. One never knows, DOES one?

6. 6 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   No intelligent person could NOT recognize the Musky odor of an elitist, convinced that his success is due to his innate superiority to the rest of us.

7. 8 days ago on Frazz

   Insofar as I actually wear the shirts, it is akin to an aviation museum that keeps all of its artifacts in flying condition and takes them up every now and then.

8. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Assuming you meant “masterwork” as a superlative, did you forget “Bridge Over Troubled Water”? Declaring any single song as “his masterwork” is as foolish as declaring “la Gioconda” da Vinci’s masterwork.

9. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I am grateful that Paul is still with us and still making music despite his health problems. He’s actually planning to go back out on the road in April for “A Quiet Celebration” nationwide tour. Sadly, none of the venues are less than a full day’s drive from me. I was blessed to see Leonard Cohen nearby before he passed. For both artists, songwriting was a higher form of poetry, so they’ve earned their immortality.

10. 9 days ago on Frazz

    I have a collection of (mostly long-sleeved) T-shirts going back to my college days over fifty years ago. Many are pristine, many are grubby-work-only, but most are presentable-in-public. All of them have some sort of design representing a university, an aviation event, a computer/software vendor, an exotic locale or activity therein, or some other referent with which I am willing to be associated. My closet is my biography.

    I’ve always done my own laundry, and I quickly discovered that the biggest time-sink in that process was folding shirts to store in drawers. So I remodeled two closets with multiple rods, and started hanging them all up. I’m approaching forty linear feet, and with gentle washing, the vast majority of them will outlast me. Yes, the “work” shirts are stained, frayed, and holey, but as long as they protect my skin, I don’t care. Certainly the folks in the hardware mega-stores don’t.

    I do have a three-foot rod in a cedar closet for the dress shirts and suits that I had to wear for the last decade of my career. (Don’t miss that one little bit.) But these days, those clothes are relegated to marryin’/buryin’ events.

    Clothes should primarily serve a function. “Fashion” is for folks who care more about appearance than function. “Fast Fashion” is an abominable affectation of the idle rich and idiots.