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Larry Thornberry

Larry Thornberry is a writer in Tampa.
by | Mar 9, 2018

It’s worse than we thought. Later than we thought. The totalitarian PC enforcers have even established a beachhead in country…

by | Mar 9, 2018

It’s worse than we thought. Later than we thought. The totalitarian PC enforcers have even established a beachhead in country…

by | Feb 27, 2018

When there’s a long sentence with the word “but” in the middle, start reading after the “but,” because what follows…

by | Feb 23, 2018

Why spend money and reading time on two older gents kvetching in Where Were We? That’s easy. Because you’re unlikely to find more amusing kvetching anywhere in print than in this compendium of email correspondence between two men of letters, one in America, the other in England. It’s a follow-on of the equally entertaining, Distant Intimacy, published by Yale University Press in 2013 and still available.

by | Feb 14, 2018

Southern humorist Lewis Grizzard, who was taken from us too early at 47 because of a bad heart, blessed us…

by | Feb 13, 2018

Richard Wagner’s music is an acquired taste. A more difficult acquisition than most. I’ll admit to being much attracted to Mark Twain’s sarcastic take, which was (relying on my memory here, so I may not have the exact quote): “Wagner’s music is a lot better than it sounds.” Just so.

by | Feb 9, 2018

Now that we have the Super Bowl Football Extravaganza and Track Meet out of the way, and Justin Timberlake sent…

by | Jan 30, 2018

The forces of left-wing cultural intolerance have won another one. The ownership of the Cleveland Indians has finally given in…

by | Jan 25, 2018

Our Ben Stein offers the Donald some very good advice this morning. I hope he takes it. Though the Donald’s…

by | Jan 24, 2018

On the available evidence, it’s tempting to conclude that academe can’t get any goofier. Can’t sink any lower. But don’t…

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