Guest Column: Motor City Rambles

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Brian Wright

Dunkin’ Donuts, Shots, Old Drivers, Christian Dating
by John Worster

Picking up where we’ve left off with my good friend John Worster, former mixologist and Detroit-area working man, entrepreneur, and, lately, social critic. I always look forward to JW’s rapid-fire take on things absurd or out of sorts in our neck of the universe. The acronym ROFLMAO had to originate in his imagination. I hope one day he will write a book, because it will be therapeutic to be its editor. In this column John responds to my own bit of daily-grind observations about the famous Dunkin’ Donuts enterprise and its foibles. Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: Libertarian Children’s Story

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Brian Wright

Sample offshoots of a Republican children’s tale

The other day when I received the public-domain story with the punchline “Welcome to the Republican Party,” I simply couldn’t leave it alone. We all know about big-government “Republicans in Name Only” (RINOs), and it isn’t the least bit funny how they posture as advocates of liberty. Then you have the Dems, who have given up posturing as anything except Stalinistas. The only snappy (and truth-based) repartee I can find comes from the libertarian neck of the woods. — bw Continue reading →

Book Review: Keeley’s Kures (2011)

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Brian Wright

Everyman manual for simple health fixes
by Bo Keeley

The actual subtitle is “alternative healings from the trails and trials of a world-champion hobo-adventurer.” Which fairly describes both the content and the author. [Note: This reviewer actually edited and prepared Keeley’s Kures for publication via the Createspace in-house, print-on-demand publishing firm, a subsidiary of Amazon.com.]

As a “wholistic libertarian” Web columnist and book and movie reviewer, I’m always on the lookout for creative spirits and intellects. Bo is off the charts in both of these categories—most of Continue reading →

Guest Column: Tom Woods on Ron Paul

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Brian Wright

What opponents seem to be saying
by Tom Woods

Tom Woods, historian and author of New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, is a strong spokesman and advocate for liberty,[1] whom I have recently witnessed emerging and leading the Tenth Amendment (state Nullification of unconstitutional laws) charge. He also is a salient intellectual on the frontlines of support for candidate Ron Paul. What will strike you most, however, in the majority of his commentaries—esp. in this piece he wrote back in February 2012—is his rapier wit and humor. Here’s a long excerpt: Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: Spillin’ with Dunkin’

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Brian Wright

“America [gets the?] runs on Dunkin’ Donuts”
by Brian Wright (orig. 4/25/11)

Let’s just start out by stating that in my humble opinion (IMHO) Dunkin’ Donuts’ coffee stands only slightly above used motor oil on any sober taster’s choice scale. But that doesn’t keep the product out of the hands of millions of, obviously hungover, world customers, daily. What William Rosenberg began in Massachusetts after WW2 as a catering business featuring coffee-break snacks, became the franchise operation Dunkin’ Donuts (DD) in 1950; initially DD also focused mainly on the pastries. Now, according to its corporate info, “over half of Dunkin’ Donuts business today is in coffee, making it more of a competitor to Starbucks…” as opposed to its traditional baked goods competitors. Continue reading →

Book Review: The Third Terrorist

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Brian Wright

Mideast connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing?
by Jayna Davis

“Why do questions swirl around the official account of the massacre in Oklahoma City? A CNN/USA Today poll—taken shortly before publication of this book in 2004—revealed that 68 percent of Americans believed other bombing conspirators were still out there, somewhere. I found them,” writes author of The Third Terrorist, Jayna Davis, “hiding in plain sight.”

Investigative reporter Davis’s alarming book describes a personal journey from the rubble of the Murrah Federal Building on the fateful 19th day of April, 1995, to the large and varied evidence of Continue reading →

Movie Review: The Americanization of Emily (1964)

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Brian Wright

Brilliant antiwar satire ahead of its time ___ 9/10
Review by Brian Wright

Lt. Cmdr. Charles Madison: I don’t want to know what’s good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn’t good, or bad, or true. It’s merely factual, it’s sensual, it’s alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe. In that order. I want to know what I am, not what I should be. Continue reading →