“I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail” is his signature song and probably a good LP to start with. Anything mid-60s is good and the gospel stuff from that time isn’t as schmaltzy as you might expect.

I dunno, it sounds like this was the first time the writer had ever heard of it. There’s that hint of incredulity that “Bakersfield Sound” could even be a thing.

Seriously - the Bakersfield Sound IS country.

AVC can’t go a full week without demonstrating their extremely loose grasp of pop culture.  

Yeah, it’s freaking Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. Like, there’s an even chance that a given person’s mental snapshot of “old-school country music” has more to do with Bakersfield than Nashville.

“Bakersfield sound” is an established term for a subgenre of country music, FYI.

Camp Kinser? Sure looks like the barracks on Kinser. I was one of the first few dozen Marines to move into the 3d FSSG H&HC barracks.

Ran when parked. And then some. Seriously, that wasn’t the car I expected to see blowing away. 

I was really hoping that they would be able to have a more historical Scottish style protest against Trump:

Obviously, cause thy’re still here.

Well, that, and plus the Chinese were effectively locked out of any other type of employment.

If you have any basic awareness of IHL, it’s probably because you learned about the Geneva Conventions in school.

Because they aren’t part of a nation’s military, they are considered to be unlawful combatants.

Or people who never served or served decades ago. I served in the army from 2010 to 2015 alongside LGBT people and it never bothered me one bit. Even the religious folk who were against gay marriage and the like would accept an LGBT comrade if they did their job well.

Or, “I never dreamed I’d miss that idiot from Texas.”

I guess that’s why he spends like 3 days a week at his golf clubs.

Standing next to the mayor of London, Sidiq Khan. A man who has had his own run ins with Trump.

I don’t think he’s stupid, though. Intentionally ignorant and incurious, yes, but not stupid. What he is, is a shrewd con artist. Which is far more dangerous than stupid. I think we underestimate trump at our peril when we dismiss him as stupid.

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo...

Mattis is the only person in that administration I legitimately respect still and I am still baffled how he has not either quit that shitshow or by the same token Trump has not fired him for not being a sniveling toady.