John MacAyeal

Overheard while passing by the White House landscaping crew: "Oh, so those weren't weeds in the First Lady's vegetable garden." "They were, but they're the President's tobacco plants. Just don't let ...

"Guns-in-bars?" Wasn't that a heavy-metal band that had to break up after grunge hit? Oh...right...that was Guns N' Roses....

I remember reading in the 90s about bodies being found in open areas of Miami with massive injuries. The theory was that they had stowed away in planes in the Caribbean and fallen out. A terrible way ...

At my local Walgreen's last Saturday: Man ahead of me tells clerk, "I don't have health insurance. First I want to see how much this will cost before I take it." I'm next. "Sir, your insurance is no...

I'd like to know if I'm the only person who walked out of an Avatar showing. I couldn't stand those 3D glasses. I don't have any desire to go to China either....

Al Queda's home has been the Internet for the past several years. I heard that from a former State Department official who quit in protest of troop increases in Afghanistan. Can't remember his name --...

Another memory of WWII: An elderly woman I knew at my church in El Paso told me that on the night of the atom-bomb test her living-room window completely shattered. It wasn't like a rock was thrown th...

Regarding the troop increase in Afghanistan, I wonder if this may be the first step in reviving the draft. If the increase doesn't work, will Obama call for more? That will have to require a draft....

Saddam Hussein diligently studied the life of Stalin and stayed in power for more than 30 years....

I remember reading in the early 90s that the true goal of Peta is to effect a complete separation between animals and humans. They won't publicize this I read, but what they really want -- besides the...

LBJ also tried incentives with North Vietnam. He offered to build a public utility the size of the Tennessee Valley Authority there if Ho Chih Minh surrendered. ...

As one of the last kids who had to register for the draft during the Vietnam Era (and that because my mom made me get in the car and drove me over), I hate saying this, but I'm wondering if we should ...

It was the summer of 1981. I was walking down a street in downtown El Paso when I spotted a headline on an El Paso Times from a vending machine: Israel bombs Iraqi nuclear reactor. Should they/we try...

As the driver of a Toyota Echo, I can definitely second SouthAustinJeff's sentiment....

Sounds like an update is needed for this Depression classic. Maybe soon IMDB will have a listing for "Wild Boys of the Trail (2010)." Wild Boys of the Road (1933) At the bottom of the depression, To...