Born on the Fourth of July, cont'd

Taken earlier today a few miles from my home. Three observations --

(1) Yes, the sign is still up, 3+ weeks after the holiday with which it is affiliated.
(2) No, they haven't fixed the fairly obvious typographical mistake, and
(3) Yes, these people are retailing highly combustible, unstable and dangerous materiel to the general public.

Is this really happening?

You couldn't just stop at inciting further racial hatred and making police work more difficult. Now you have to invite everybody to the People's House (at the people's expense) "for a beer."

Ah, yes -- ALCOHOL. The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems, as Homer Simpson might say.

I really can't believe I saw this.

Real Heroes

Yeah, sure, Walter Cronkite, journalism legend and whatnot. Most trusted man in America, etc., etc. If I've lost Walter Cronkite, I've lost Middle America. And that's the way it is. WHATEVER. "Uncle Walter's" politics -- like that of his successor -- were no great mystery, and there are not a few of us who consider his anchorship to be the beginning of the slippery slope away from any manner of objectivity in the major media. And we can probably thank him for keeping the somewhat shaky reporting of the Watergate scandal alive when Woodward and Bernstein were floundering.

There are newsmakers and newsbreakers, and Cronkite's reporting began the blurring of the two where the reporter became the story. Personally, I'd rather see more reporting today on a Henry Allingham, a real hero from World War I who passed away a few hours after Cronkite. Now there are only four of them.

Wide World of Sports

Afternoon comes early for some retired players --

"I have a new TV show airing Saturday mornings at 12:00 Noon." -- Keyshawn Johnson


As for pitchers hitting (or flailing) in the All-Star Game --

"I know everyone tuned in tonight to see a Roy Halladay at-bat." -- Joe Buck


and some rare fiscal honesty from the C-in-C --

Joe: "They haven't won an All-Star Game since 1996. Maybe the National League needs a bailout."

BHO: "Sorry. We're out of money."

In your spare time...

I added EyeblastTV to my links (at right) in case any of you still harbor questions about major media prejudices and/or you can stomach seeing and hearing the evidence. There's some other good stuff too.

It's sponsored by the Media Research Center, whose link is also provided and has been since the inception of Salad Days.

I replaced the YouTube link, since that site seems to have fallen off a slippery slope, although I'll still link to it from time to time.

Born on the Fourth of July

Well, not exactly, but Johnny Cash should have been.

Happy Independence Day!

The Mighty 44 (well, some of them)

Presidential junkies might find this site interesting. It doesn't have all of them, but a pretty good assortment of presidential documents.

I still think these two speeches were pretty good. Worth re-reading -- parts prophetic, parts ironic, and some parts that make you wince a little, but their characterizations of their predecessors are dead-on.

RIP

You can have your angels, your eccentric song-and-dance entertainers with questionable habits, and even your career second bananas. I'll take Mladen George Sekulovich any day of the week.

RIP Karl and thanks for an amazing career. An incredible filmography in countless pictures, including the "original" Herb Brooks.