FM Radio
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Nostalgia, Patriot's Journey
My kids are in the Boychild’s room right now exploring the FM band of commercial radio. And. Loving. It. I remember when I was twelve years old, all I wanted in the world for my thirteenth birthday was a little radio with an earplug that I could call my own, that I could take with [...]
Tags: Patriot's Journey
Seeking
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Nostalgia, Shooting Sports
No, not trading in Hazel, folks. Rather I’m looking for a pistol. All I can do is try to describe my memory and see if it rings any bells. I don’t know if you can help or not, but I am looking for a 1911 like my dad used to have. It was a govt [...]
Tags: guns are good
Symbolic
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Nostalgia
I have read Glory Road at least a dozen times. Every time I do I am reminded about how many people are out there who just don’t get Robert Heinlein. He has been called an elitist, a misogynist, an authoritarian, etc. But what his detractors seem to not understand is that he was a patriot, [...]
Tags: crying on the outside
A Government of Laws, and Not of Men
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Ephemera, Nostalgia
Is everyone watching the John Adams mini-series on HBO? What do we all think thusfar? Ted and I only just started part 1 last night, so no spoilers! (Hah, I R funneee.) I haven’t read the biography, though it is one I usually touch every time we enter a bookstore. Should I get this now? [...]
Tags: feeding the elephant's child, history
Dad and the GD Bricks
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Nostalgia
I am not going to write about the news of today, no matter how interesting it is that New York’s new governor is also involved in a sex scandal, or that one of the youngest girls to ever fly cross country (and transAtlantic) decided to kill herself, or that the Heller case could be the [...]
Tags: things my dad taught me
Denial of Progress
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Nostalgia, Over The Seas
Oh sure, fundamentalism is all well and good until it actually affects YOU: A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has issued a rare public attack on religious hardliners angry over a video showing him dancing at a wedding in the conservative Islamic state, a newspaper reported Tuesday. … Obaikan, an adviser to the cleric-run Ministry of [...]
Tags: Muslim fundamentalist, Nostalgia
