Lawrence Hall

The former address, "reactionary drivel," was a P. G. Wodehouse gag that few ever understood to be a mildly self-deprecating joke. Drivel, perhaps, but not reactionary. Neither the Red Caps nor the Reds ever got it.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Rush Limbaugh is a Democrat

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Mack Hall Last week Jack Lawrence of the American Civil Liberties Union invited y’r ‘umble scrivener to participate in a debate on, well, ci...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

A Nation of Beggars

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Mack Hall Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time. Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you sp...

A Few Kind Words about the United States Postal Service

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Mack Hall Bashing our practically perfect postal people is a recent innovation; until the United States Postal Service, nee’ Post Office, wa...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

A Sort-of Disneyland, only with Firing Squads

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Mack Hall Dubai is a no-kissing zone. The United Arab Emirates is just another middle-eastern thugocracy of sand, rocks, oil, and semi-retir...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Cultural Colonialism and a Fish

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Mack Hall Hayden Panettiere, who is famous for playing an “indestructible cheerleader” (I’m only repeated what the AP says) on television, h...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Mack's Health Care Proposals

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Mack Hall Before you vote you must first (1) register to vote, (2) vote, and (3) understand that listening to the screaming fat boys on the ...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Saint Swithin's Day

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Mack Hall There are no parades for Saint Augustine of North Africa on the 28th of August. No one wears a tee-shirt with the invitational “K...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Rush Limbaugh's Bedroom and Other Meditations

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Mack Hall With the arrival of spring, or as springy as this part of the world ever uncoils, folks go outside and do outside stuff – fertiliz...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Fish Sticks, Hockey Sticks, Canadian Chicks

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Mack Hall Last week a pet whale killed its third human at about the same time the Canadian women’s hockey team won a hockey match, which hoc...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Buddhists and Tradesmen Kindly Use Side Entrance

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Mack Hall Last week the King of Sweden wore a baseball cap and Tiger Woods didn’t, pretty much altering everyone’s perception of reality to ...

Buddhists and Tradesmen Kindly Use Side Entrance

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Mack Hall Last week the King of Sweden wore a baseball cap and Tiger Woods didn’t, pretty much altering everyone’s perception of realit...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Spawn of Satan Wireless

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Mack Hall Once upon a time there was no 911 service, but you could use the handset of a Western Electric telephone as a club for beating bur...
Sunday, February 7, 2010

The United States Witch Force

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Mack Hall The United States Air Force has officially welcomed witchcraft through granting a worship space (apparently a ring of rocks on a h...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

A Cookie and a Hug for the Nazis?

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Mack Hall That Long and Nazi Road The Nazi Party of Colorado has adopted a mile of US Highway 85 to keep tidy. Yes, when you think of commun...

A Cookie and a Hug for the Nazis?

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Mack Hall That Long and Nazi Road The Nazi Party of Colorado has adopted a mile of US Highway 85 to keep tidy. Yes, when you thin...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Hapsburgs in Space

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Mack Hall For Blessed Karl I Time is a trap for those who will not hear The silver hymns soft-sighed among the stars, Or invisible winds whi...

New Sayings from the Old West

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Mack Hall Cinema, like jazz, is an art form that originates in America, and America’s optimistic view of herself is best shown in western fi...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

If They Told us the Truth

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Mack Hall You are not a valued customer. Your telephone call is not important to us; if it were, a human would be talking to you. This is j...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

What to Name Your Pet or Human

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Mack Hall Ashley Sanders, one of the many fine writers at The Beaumont Enterprise , posted in her Sunday column a list of the top ten pet na...
Sunday, January 3, 2010

Great Work -- Now Go Away

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Mack Hall Last fall a Navy commando unit in a brilliant operation captured a notorious terrorist alive. Alive. But the terrorist later sai...
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Lawrence Hall, HSG
Y'r 'umble scrivener knows how to milk cows (altho' he long ago swore to own no livestock larger than dachshunds), build fences, clear brush, and cut firewood. After 18 months in Viet-Nam and Cambodia he worked his way through university as an ambulance driver, nurses' aide, and then LVN. BA in History, University of San Diego, 1976; MEd, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1984; MA in English, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2002. He also taught school, but that makes him a class (no pun) enemy just now. He has been rejected by some of the finest publishing houses in America.
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