Tom McMahon

The Bunyan Muffler Man of Clinton, Wisconsin

The Bunyan Muffler Man of Clinton, Wisconsin

Now, I've been through Clinton (pop. 1,952) hundreds of times and I've never seen this guy. I have to get off the beaten path more, eh?

World Series History: Championships by Club

A surprisingly fun list from mlb.com . Some factoids:

• The Boston Red sox have won 6 World Series, which believe it or not, puts them in 3rd place among all major league teams.
• The Braves have won a World Series in each of their three cities: Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta.
• Although they have won 5 since moving to LA, the Dodgers only won one World series for all the time they were in Brooklyn.
• The Athletics have won 4 World Series while in Oakland, no surprise there. But they also won 5 while in Philadelphia.

Travel Brochures from the 1920s and 1930s

Travel Brochures from the 1920s and 1930s

An All-Chicago World Series

Has kind of a funny sound to it, doesn't it? Let's practice saying it again: "An All-Chicago World Series." These days the automatic response to this phrase would be the rather direct "You've been drinking again, haven't you?" But in the 1906 World Series, it really happened.

Celebrate Morality Lapel Pin

Celebrate Morality Lapel Pin

It would be fun to wear this to the office just to see if the Celebrate Diversity crowd would even tolerate it.

Why Is Rolling Stone Too Scared To Run An Ad For The Bible?

From Jerry Falwell:

The editors at Rolling Stone magazine have determined that an ad promoting a new Bible for "spiritually intrigued 18-34 year olds" is too religious to appear in the historic rock and roll publication.

Zondervan had attempted to place an ad in the magazine for its new Today's New International Version Bible. Ad space was initially sold to Zondervan before the ad was ultimately disapproved.  ...

Thankfully, other secular outlets – including The Onion (hardly a bastion of conservative religious values), MTV.com, VH-1 and America Online – have accepted the Zondervan ad. I commend each of them for operating under a policy of openness to religious expression.

And I urge the leadership at Rolling Stone to reconsider their decision to ban the ad. In the spirit of freedom of the press, I ask that they allow Zondervan to offer Rolling Stone readers an opportunity to look into this new Bible translation. I imagine most Rolling Stone readers would say they are mature enough to handle a small dose of the Bible in the publication.

Postal Art Gallery: Farm Flag by Hiro Kimura

Postal Art Gallery: Farm Flag by Hiro Kimura

A Question For Lucinda Bassett

Lucinda Bassett is the founder of the Midwest Center for Stress And Anxiety. You may have seen her ads on TV, or heard them on the radio. But really, shouldn't it be the Midwest Center Against Stress And Anxiety?

Imploding Toy Building Construction Sets

Imploding Toy Building Construction Sets

The Worlds First, Best, and ONLY engineering, construction, and demolition toy to be endorsed by the Pro's at Controlled Demolition Inc!

Facing Reality

From Daniel J. Flynn:

Leftists have invested so much in discrediting George W. Bush that their fervor has inhibited their abilities to think rationally. Pre-election taunts of "accidental president" and "re-defeat Bush" allowed the Bush haters to benefit from the illusion that they represented majority opinion. November 2, one might think, would have shattered that illusion. It didn’t.

Today's comforting myth is sure to deliver real pain in the future. If one fails to even accept defeat, how can one identify the problems that led to defeat? Since the problems that brought on John Kerry's Election Day loss are in no small part due to the Left, concluding that the Massachusetts senator was never in fact defeated relieves leftists of the necessity to look inward critically.

As psychologist Nathaniel Branden has said, "You can't leave a place you've never been."