Oh, and yesterday's comments about CEOs and "Saw"? Add Bill Gates to the head-in-a-bear trap category for Vista and their new MS Office. I may yet grow to appreciate it, but for right now, ornery traditionalist that I am, I can't fathom why they needed to futz around with all the old familiar controls. But just to qualify things, I couldn't even figure out the lab monkey intelligence test required to finesse open the plastic box my software came in and just said the hell with it and ripped the damn thing apart.
OK, here we go.
This Day in History
As a show of force, two British frigates sail up the Hudson River blasting their guns. Peace feelers are then extended to the Americans. At the request of the British, Gen. Washington meets with Howe's representatives in New York and listens to vague offers of clemency for the American rebels. Washington politely declines, then leaves.
Author David McCullough covers these events and much more in his excellent "1776."
JULY 1957 GUNS Magazine Now Online
Meet the "Shooting King of Iraq."
No, not this one.
This one.
Of particular interest to me in this issue was a Crossfire section letter reminding the editor "It's a Right, Not a Privilege," and a feature about a lady farmer who knew "Guns are Our Protectors." And, of course, there are the vintage ads (and prices).
Grabbers All?
My Rights Watch column for the July 2007 issue of GUNS Magazine about the leading presidential contenders (as recognized by the "official" media) is now online. And before you jump on me, this was submitted before all the buzz about Fred Thompson, or Ron Paul's strong showing among Internet activists.
I actually liked my working title, "Heil to the Chief," but the publishers do, after all, have sponsors, who are probably more than a bit queasy about having their good names associated with such a disreputable and extreme fellow as myself.
Shameless Plug: "A Very Sound Policy"
My Rights Watch column for the August 2007 issue of GUNS Magazine about the Virginia Tech atrocity enablers is now on sale at sensible newsstands throughout the Republic.
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That's it for today. Maybe I'll have some time to post again tomorrow.As master pianist Fats Waller observed, "One never knows, do one?"
