Bob McCarty Writes

Michael, the creative mind at My Personal Litmus, believes the 60-year-old animated short, Make Mine Freedom (1948) above should be shown to every school child in the United States.  Furthermore, he writes: The animators of this beauty must have had a looking-glass into the future to get things so dead on, he writes.  Check out [...]

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My friend, Lloyd Marcus — about whom I blogged for the first time March 19 and on subsequent occasions here and here — is staying busy as the talented singer-songwriter (a.k.a., “Rock Star”) behind the American Tea Party Anthem. From a hotel in Los Angeles, he sent the following e-mail last night: Last Friday, I [...]

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Fox News Channel is devoting a lot of attention to the controversy surrounding whether or not President Barack Obama bowed to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah during the G20 meeting in Europe earlier this month. The official White House photo and caption above, obtained by Doug Ross, would have one believe President Obama was looking for [...]

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Through articles like one that appeared in The Palmetto Scoop this week, Americans learned that John Holdren, President Barack Obama’s science advisor, is contemplating shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere in an effort to reflect the sun’s rays and, as a result, save the planet from global warming GLOBULL WARMING. After reading about Holdren’s [...]

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By Bob McCarty Copyright © 2009 Bob McCarty Writes.  All rights reserved.  To request reprint permission, send an e-mail to BobMcCartyWrites (at) gmail (dot) com. * * * A controversy with life-and-death implications has been brewing for 12 months over the Army’s decision to deploy the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a hand-held lie detector, [...]

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Photographer Julian Wolkenstein proved he can be successful while “horsing around.”  Evidence can be found in his recently-publicize photographs of horses with hair extensions. Shown at left in the photo above, a photo of a horse with chestnut-colored hair extensions accompanied an article about Wolkenstein’s work that appeared in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper yesterday.  It [...]

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From the “unbelievably-strange news” file comes news about a 10-year-old business, ConjugalHarmony.com, that connects female prison inmates with men from the outside. The antithesis of eHarmony.com, this business bills itself as “the oldest, most trusted name in conjugal dating” and banks on the slogan, “The nagging stops when the bars slam shut!” The company’s web [...]

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