"Dapper and Deadly"

I was looking through Robert Avrech's always-interesting Friday photo essay today, and saw this picture of Jacob Bryce, an FBI agent from back in the day (1930's through 1950's). The photo was taken by Gjon Mili in 1945.



Bryce was a fascinating character - as the title of the post indicates, "dapper and deadly". Here are a couple of articles about him.

When a level-headed guy like Victor Davis Hanson says it looks like a coup...

...then you can bet it's a coup.

A "coup" is no longer proof of right-wing paranoia, but increasingly a part of the general progressive discourse of resistance to Trump.

In these upside-down times, patriotism is being redefined as removing a president before a constitutionally mandated election.

Happy Feet Friday

The great T-Bone Walker with “I Got the Blues” (1951).



Bonus tune! Here's T-Bone and his combo with “The Hustle is On” (1950).

Bullies, cowards and make-believe revolutionaries

Scary clown Rep. Earl Blumenauer from Oregon actually organized boycotts of Ambassador Sondland's wife's hotel business in order to - I dunno, is "extort" the word I'm looking for? - to extort testimony favorable to the Democrats' impeachment fantasies. Blumenauer had the immortal rind to Tweet out, "welcome to the resistance".

Maybe it's time for armchair radicals like Blumenauer to get a taste of the Empire strikes back.


What the fashionable leftist twit is wearing this year.

The Bee stings again!

"Lemonade Turns To Blood At Chick-Fil-A Locations Across Country".

Haw! "One Chick-fil-A location in Toledo was swarmed with frogs and locusts, while the judgment of darkness fell on other restaurants throughout California, though that may just have been a regular power outage."

Say, um, what about possible corruption in Ukraine?

Is there anything to it?

Could be: "Ukrainian Indictment Claims $7.4 Billion Obama-Linked Laundering, Puts Biden Group Take At $16.5 Million".

Ukrainian sources, grain of salt and all that, but still - isn't this something that honest, inquisitive reporters would want to track down? Are there really no such people anywhere in the mainstream press?

Interesting