No, no, not me and the 'Memsahib', although actually, as it happens, today is indeed our 53rd wedding anniversary - undiluted, total bliss, all of it, no, really, honestly, would I lie to you, she has enjoyed every minute of it! Actually, the anniversary I was referring to was the 50th birthday of The American Spectator, a magazine I used to subscribe to back in the '70/80s when every month they used to send it to me by post - and no, it wasn't by Pony Express! It was terrific and opened my eyes to an America of which I knew little. Today, of course, it is available at the click of a keyboard but I am delighted that Mr. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jnr, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, is still at the helm and, with an excellent team of writers, still firing his broadsides at the sillies, and the crooks, on the Left.
The crooks, of course, have been in his sights for decades and may be lumped together under the general heading of 'The Clinton Crime Family'!
Then, beginning in the 1990s the gods gave us the Clintons. We have pursued them for three decades. Some conservatives complained that for The American Spectator to pursue the Clintons wasn’t quite grownup. All I can say is that if the Clintons had not been a staple of the headlines for those 30 years, we would have had nothing to write about. But the Clintons were there from beginning to end, and unfortunately for them, so were we, writing it all down.
It might have taken 30 years but Tyrrell and his team, with, of course, more than a little help from the Clintons themselves, eventually succeeded in driving stakes through both "their cheatin' hearts"! For that and that alone, Mr. Tyrrell deserves a Congressional Medal of Honor but I don't suppose he will be holding his breath!
The story of the American Spectator is a parable for American conservatism gone off the rails. Once highly regarded, it went out of print in 2014 after years of financial problems resulting from R. Emmett Tyrrell intellectually selling out to far right billionair Richard Mellon Scaife. It's now just another right wing web rag. Far more detail than anyone should care about can be found here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/11/the-life-and-death-of-the-american-spectator/302343/
Some far better choices are:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/
and
http://www.nationalinterest.org/
Posted by: Bob | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 17:37
Well happy anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Duff!! It has to be a gift and a blessing for Her to be rid of that boot just in time for you to take her out for a nice dinner!
Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 17:38
Btw, Happy Aniversary, David.
Posted by: Bob | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 17:38
Happy Anniversary, Duffers and Memsahib.
Posted by: missred | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 18:20
Happy Anniversary Duffers.
Posted by: Up2L8 | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 19:22
Thank you all for your anniversary good wishes. The fact that the two of us have pootled along together for 53 years I put down to my generous, easy-going, good humoured nature, er, and her cooking!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 20:17
David, careful, her boot is now gone and it is free to reach well up the shin!
Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 20:32
Fortunately, Whiters, she never reads this blog otherwise I wouldn't dare!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 20:59
David,
My best wishes to you and the Mrs. Duff.
BTW, do not be overly offended by Bob's stamp of disdain @ Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 17:37. It's just his knee-jerk reaction to any rightful condemnation of the Left and/or any form of praise for American conservatism.
Cheerio(s)
Posted by: TheBigHenry | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 21:31
Thank you, Henry, and please don't worry about Bob, he sort of keeps us honest and at least he's not a mouth-dribbling, eye-ball-rolling twerp like 'you-know-who'! Thank goodness, not all Lefties are loonies!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 21:47
Not to worry, David. I like Bob. I also like to needle him from time to time :)
It's all good.
Posted by: TheBigHenry | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 22:37
Aw shucks, guys, same to you. But I'm only a leftie compared to you, not to actual lefties.
Posted by: Bob | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 23:20
Bob,
Acknowledged.
Posted by: TheBigHenry | Tuesday, 03 October 2017 at 23:37
David
Congrats to you and bride!
Hank
Posted by: Hank | Wednesday, 04 October 2017 at 01:17
Happy Anniversary!
Posted by: Andis Kaulins | Wednesday, 04 October 2017 at 04:51
Happy Anni, Gaffer and Memsahib!
I remember it well, tucked away up there I was, with six months to go ... !
Was that "The Ride of the Valkyries" I heard in the church?
Wagner, honestly.
xox SoD
Posted by: Loz | Wednesday, 04 October 2017 at 06:21
Andis, very good to hear from you and I trust that all is well with you and yours.
SoD, indeed you were there and for once, thank the Lord, you couldn't speak!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 04 October 2017 at 09:49