Entry 3:

Nutmeg,

How can a private pilot not like "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer"? "Oh we sing as we limp through the air / Look below, there's our field over there / Though there's one motor gone, we can still carry on / Comin' in on a wing and a prayer!" Is it the not-so-subtle implication that the plane might crash?

The prison gear looked much too fantab. All the kids will be wanting one. But you're right: anything that keeps them quiet. That's one obvious refutation of the absurd idea that watching television makes kids violent: hospitals, prisons, rest homes, every institution that warehouses people uses television to pacify its population.

I was thinking about the National Missile Defense (speaking of a wing and a prayer). Some deep vulnerability these guys feel, afraid to trust diplomacy and treaties, so they go for a grandiose scheme that's so far out of reality that they then have to manufacture enemies, aka "rogue states," to justify it. What happened to these wealthy and powerful men that they're frightened of their own shadows? The best news I heard in the immediate post-Cold War years was a joint chief saying ominously, "The most dangerous enemy the United States faces today is North Korea." Sounded to me like time to strip off the bandoliers and put your feet up.

Is that Van Heflin, the actor? I didn't know he was a singer.

xox,
Rhodeman