We needed tough lessons as children. An occasional playground fight was expected as the norm, and if we complained to our mother that we were being teased, we were treated to this glorious aphorism: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” My mom used to say that all the time, one of the seemingly endless adages she had at her disposal to deal with any of life’s problems. To this day I think long and hard about the practical application that dogma had on my life.
The idea that you could actually choose whether or not to be hurt by words: that was huge for me. Even though it has been repeated ad nauseam for generations, “sticks and stones” really is a powerful bit of philosophy to a kid. That’s one of the great things about being a parent: you can spout nothing but clichés, and yet, to your child, you come off as one of the great thinkers in Western culture.
–from MEAN DADS FOR A BETTER AMERICA, by Tom Shillue
sometimes I upload and it gives me a message that the video is "processing" but it never fully does! So anyway this one is from March 2nd
Also- I'm making the announcement before Michael does- I'll be on Jesse W Primetime tonight with CHARLIE guest hosting. so that probably means 8:50 or so. I guarantee we will be discussing the Oscars and other HOLLYWEIRD issues
Thank you for reminding me. I wanted to talk about our post-show hangout in Memphis and here it is:
Shillue was great on "Gutfeld!" Thursday night, although I think I prefer his old outfit with the Polo plaid ties to his new "Yacht Mannequin" clothes.
“Cowboy Church”
We recently started watching the series ‘Yellowstone’. I had avoided it because I found Kevin Costner’s gravely voice affectation annoying.
My beautiful bride cajoled me into watching the prequels 1883, and 1923 first. Now we are on the second season of ‘Yellowstone’.
The reason I’ve added this preamble to the following story that I’ve related before, is that it takes place in ‘Paradise Valley’. The local town is Emigrant MT. The location of the Dutton ranch in the ‘Yellowstone’ series. In fact, we went to a ‘Rocky Mountain Oyster’ festival at the saloon in ‘Downtown’ Emigrant MT.
The ‘Cowboy Church’ we attended was held at ‘Cowboy Mike’s’ Ranch.
His ranch house consisted of a barn, with an Apartment where the hayloft would be located. Unfortunately, it was all destroyed a year later in the bad floods from the Yellowstone River.
We were invited to ‘Cowboy Church’ during one of our first visits to Montana.
‘Cowboy Church’ involves the ...
