Sunday, June 3, 2012

Red Emma/AT

Nugent in Jerusalem
     As you know, Red Emma is a real man of letters (“F” and “U,” anyway).
     You can see his latest scholarly contribution here:

The Evil of Banality: YAF's 2013 Reagan Calendar, Tom Fuentes' Passing, and It's a Smelly World After All (NavelGazing/OC Weekly)
An excerpt:
     IT'S NOT NECESSARY to have an opinion about everything, but it sure is fun to try. And by "opinion" I mean analysis, critique, an arguable and defensible position and not that thing everybody's got one of and, boy, do they all smell bad. And, while I am at it, no, it's not a small world after all, friends, despite the cloying idiocy of that ride over at Disneyland. It's a big world, with plenty of small people, many of whom smell bad indeed. Which brings me, this Sunday morning, to the late GOP uberdude Tom Fuentes, Tom L. Phillips of Regenry Publishers, the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and Ronald Raygun himself, all by way of the nifty Reagan Ranch 2013 Calendar published by the Young America's Foundation (YAF), all of which I consider this week because, as Sir Edmund Hillary remarked to Tenzing Norgay, it was there (and so I took it!)

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...