Tampons in the boys' bathroom and deer hunting in the rural South

Deer hunting in the rural South is as popular as tennis in the Hamptons. Several Southern states have a traditional rifle hunting season, a bowhunting season, a season for hunting with primitive rifles, and a season for hunting deer with dogs. Hunting deer with dogs...

Are we nuts? Ukraine invades Russia

When the good guys invade a country, it’s called an incursion. When the bad guys invade a country, it’s called an invasion. Thus, when the United States invaded Cambodia in 1970, the press described the event as an incursion. When the good guys sponsor an independence...

Golly gee, It doesn't matter who we elect as president

Well, golly gee, what have you done to me? Well, I guess it doesn’t matter anymore. Buddy Holly (1956) Americans are caught up in a frenzy about the November election as if it matters who we choose as president. But it doesn’t.  An economic, military, and...

Bone Tomahawk revives the Western movie genre

 I grew up in the golden age of Western movies. I saw dozens of Westerns as a child and watched hundreds of Western episodes on television: Gunsmoke, Bonanza, High Chapparal, Have Gun Will Travel, The Roy Rogers Show, Rawhide—I saw them all. Why did I love this genre?...

'Can’t Take the Home Out of Oklahoma': A Movie Review of Twisters

I grew up in Tornado Alley in western Oklahoma. This was before the invention of cell phones or the Internet, and people in my small town were warned about an approaching tornado by sirens. As a small child, I recall being awakened in the middle of the night by the...

Secret Service Director Kimberley Cheatle should be fired ASAP

A 20-year-old kid tried to kill Former President Trump last week and damned near succeeded. A bullet pierced Trump’s right ear. Had it traveled two inches to the left, Mr. Trump would have been a murder victim. Shortly after the assassination attempt, Secret Service...