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Bryan

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About Me

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. -Samuel Huntington

My Interests

I enjoy gardening, poetry, ice hockey, midget-tossing and auto-erotic asphyxiation. Er..wait, wrong profile. I like live music, camping, shooting, hunting, reading. I'd add plays, museums and travel if I actually ever had time to do any of those things.

I'd like to meet:

Someone with whom I can hold an intelligent discussion but who can also appreciate a good redneck dive bar. Someone who likes to work with their hands. Someone who holds well-reasoned opinions. Someone who might stop their car on the way home just to sit and listen to the river for a minute. Someone who appreciates what they have. No social climbers. Nobody vapid, self-centered or who values style over substance. Nobody who believes Michael Moore makes incisive documentaries or who thinks Sean Hannity is tough but fair-minded. No yankees.

Music:

I like old country, bluegrass, some jam band stuff, lots of folk like John Prine and Arlo Guthrie, classic rock, etc. Actually, I'm pretty open to most music-just don't much cotton to R&B or rap.

Movies:

Too expensive, and those damn noisy kids...Mostly I stick to what's on AMC. Big Steve McQueen fan-The Sand Pebbles is probably my all-time favorite. When McQueen hits that Nationalist student leader in the chest with that ax-gold, pure gold I tell ya! Of course, no hot Ali McGraw action in that one.

Television:

My television is a ten year old 27 inch GE. Ran me $270 brand new. It's got a big crack in the plastic and the tube's going, all the result of earthquake damage suffered in 1997. I haven't had it hooked up to anything other than a VCR in over five years.

Books:

I read a whole bunch. Mostly non-fiction, history, current events, but I enjoy a pretty wide variety of stuff: Hemingway, Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, T.C. Boyle...Keith's been on my ass forever to finish the Dark Tower series. I haven't read The DaVinci Code and I don't intend to. Currently muddling my way thru Roy Jenkin's bio of Churchill.

Heroes:

OK, my grandparent's entire generation. Dick Winters. Gary Gordon and Randy Shugart. Jack Singlaub. David Hackworth. Brian Chontosh. Every member of our armed forces who're downrange right now. Thomas Jefferson. Teddy Roosevelt. Charlie Wilson. I could go on...

My Blog

Wonder what Rudyard would have had to say about William Arkin?

Free speech used to be somewhat limited in that you could say whatever the hell you wanted, but if you said the wrong thing to the wrong dude you'd probably get your ass soundly beaten.  Unfortun...
Posted by Bryan on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:07:00 PST

Was 9/11 really that bad? LAT op/ed-interesting but wrong.

Was 9/11 really that bad? The attacks were a horrible act of mass murder, but history says we're overreacting. By David A. BellJanuary 28, 2007 IMAGINE THAT on 9/11, six hours after the assault on th...
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:45:00 PST

Damn tootin'

From the WSJ:   Too many Americans are going to college. BY CHARLES MURRAY Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST The topic yesterday was education and children in the lower half of the intel...
Posted by Bryan on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:13:00 PST

The Gospel of John

As translated from the original ancient manuscripts by Fr. Frog.© copyright 2002 by John C. Schaefer  1 In the beginning was the 1911, and the 1911 was THE pistol, and it was good.  And beh...
Posted by Bryan on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:05:00 PST

Two years ago today...

Two good men gave their lives in the service of their nation.  Rest easy, fellas.Guard and Families Mourn Craig Cherry, Bobby Beasley U.S. Identifies Area Men Killed by Afghanist...
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:15:00 PST

Reaction from Harry, who lives in a small town in North Dakota,

to news of an explosion and massive fires at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom. "I guess the son of a bitch that runs the gas station ...
Posted by Bryan on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:24:00 PST

"Why are they naked, for goodness sake?" Colonel Bob Stewart

The first rule of gay Royal Marine fight club is you don't make videos of gay Royal Marine fight club.     Marine 'bullying' video condemned Marines fighting in footage obtaine...
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:35:00 PST

Mandatory Rudyard

Arithmetic on the Frontier Rudyard Kipling A GREAT and glorious thing it is     To learn, for seven years or so,The Lord knows what of that and this,   &...
Posted by Bryan on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:27:00 PST

Funniest thing I heard today

during a conversation on nuclear winter: "Well, it was originally postulated by that flaming liberal homosexual Carl Sagan." Damn you to hell, Carl Sagan!
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:33:00 PST

Love me some Rudyard.

[IF] If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt youBut make allowance for their doubting too,If you can wa...
Posted by Bryan on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:13:00 PST