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My initial attempt can be found below. The reason it’s not up here at the beginning is, for an Ode, I wandered into the weeds of history in an effort to provide a background of appreciation, the motive for writing it in the first place. Not good for ‘Ode’ material. The Subject is the star. Despite a couple decades scribbling for fun and very little profit, my Writing Discipline obviously needs oodles of work. James Bovard is the star of this show. His latest work “Last Rights – The Death of American Liberty” should be released next week. Having had the privilege of a sneak peek at Chapter One, “Tyranny Comes to Main Street”. In my untrammeled opinion, “Last Rights” will be a well-earned Blockbuster. Anything less than a NYT “Best Seller” would be a sad testimony to the epidemic of Aggressive Ignorance and Contagious Apathy Jim’s books and articles have worked at inoculating citizens against for the 30 years I’ve known him. Chapter One, “Tyranny Comes to Main Street”, comes on stronger

  The 2 & Only ride again! The Post-Bird Day episode featuring the Big Announcement about Jim Bovard's new book and Brian Wilson's Substack column skewering Transgenderism. And a borderline Johnny Carson joke...!  Listen HERE Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Toda y and The New York Post and the author of  11 books , including his most recent --   Last Rights, The Death of American Rights . Find out more on his website and follow him onTwitter/X  @JimBovard .  Brian Wilson  is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on  Substack  and his  website . On Facebook, check out  Brian's page  along with his  50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio  page and of course, the  Now For Something Completely Different  Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on  Amazon .

  Evil and those who practice it have been around for a while. Who they are, What they do and Where they do it is easy to compute; When shows up in the headlines eventually. “Why” is the tough one. The sudden appearance of ‘transgenderism, ‘gender fluidity’ and the gruesome stories that followed baffled me and, I suspect, most everyone who pays attention. Nothing so detrimental to an entire society spontaneously combusts. Who could be the prime motivator behind something so ghastly? Much of the answer can be found in Hillsdale College’s “ Imprimis ”, “Inside the Transgender Empire”. Author Christopher F. Rufo writes: “In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of “queer theory” and “transgender studies.” These academics believed gender to be a “social construct” used to oppress racial and sexual minorities, and they denounced the traditional categories of man and w

  Cheers! It's our First Annual Holiday Pod! Special Guest, Richard Arrowood, Award-Winning Grape Stomper and Wine Master! Everything about Best Holiday Wines for Turkey, Prime Rib, Spam and other stocking stuffers! Listen HERE Richard Arrowood  is an iconic winemaster who has been making wine exclusively in Sonoma County for more than for 50+ years. From 1974 through 1990, he created the wines for Chateau St. Jean, where he developed some of the first vineyard-designate Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon produced in Sonoma County. He and his wife, Alis, founded Arrowood Winery with the 1985 vintage.  Richard was the winemaster at Arrowood Winery until June 2010, when he resigned his position to devote himself full-time to making wines for his estate winery,  Amapola Creek Vineyards and Winery. Brian Wilson  is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His perio

Doesn't it warm the cockles of your heart knowing, seeing, hearing how the Government - Media Complex protects your tender, child-like self – and your loved ones – from certain words that could traumatize all of you right into your own Rubber Room on the Funny Farm? Take the semi-ignored story about Joe Biden responding to comments from David Axlerod . Spotlighting Biden's age as something deserving serious consideration of his re-election decision, the president responded c alling Axelrod “a prick” . If you are among the few who actually saw/heard that story, you would have seen it as ****k or heard it as “BLEEP”. How would the MSM report “While stashing more classified files behind his Corvette in his garage, the President accidentally pricked his finger.”? I thought we resolved this decades ago, thanks to George Carlin's “Seven Words” monologue. For Gen-Whatevers and other groups who maintain no history existed prior to their birth circa 1990, here's a link to a sh

What does the Thanksgiving – Christmas Axis of Holidays have in common with Plato’s Allegory of the Cave ? Weird, I know. It’s the only comparison that describes my reaction to the stories abounding, telling how this holiday season “Over 30% of Gen Z participants said they’ll be celebrating with friends to avoid family drama this year.” ( Preplay )( Newsweek ). There are other polls and pieces about other Gen- Somethings doing almost anything else to avoid “family”, what B-Boomers would refer to as ‘traditional’. Is this really happening? Where have I been? In previous Substack gems, I forthrightly revealed my generally reclusive, isolated, Luddite-like lifestyle over the last 25 years. While I never found the Ultimate Cave, ‘off the grid’ with sufficient ‘comforts’ to sustain someone not advancing on a New Youth, rural settings were sufficient for the days. Avoiding the professional social world and whirl was an occupational side-effect. After 50+ years in ‘show biz’, peace and quiet

  The Two and Only celebrate Happy Bird Day! Brian Wilson and Jim Bovard return with a paean for the pain of Hunter Biden's name! Plus the WaPo's 'Pity Party" and the latest on   Last Rights, The Death of American Rights . Hear it here. Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of  11 books , including his most recent --   Last Rights, The Death of American Rights . Find out more on his website and follow him onTwitter/X  @JimBovard .  Brian Wilson  is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on  Substack  and his  website . On Facebook, check out  Brian's page  along with his  50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio  page and of course, the  Now For Something Completely Different  Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on  Amazon .

  Tardy but here - Brian Wilson and James Bovard, the beloved "Two and Only" return for a look at what's left of the First Amendment, how it's being abused, what Jim Bovard plans to do about it and how you can help! Jim Bovard is a contributor for USA Today and The New York Post and the author of  10 books , soon to be 11. Find out more on his website and follow him onTwitter/X  @JimBovard .  Brian Wilson  is a nationally-known radio and television host, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 50 years experience in media as host, News/Program Director, and Owner. His periodic scribblings can be found on  Substack  and his  website . On Facebook, check out  Brian's page  along with his  50 Stories: 50 Years in Radio  page and of course, the  Now For Something Completely Different  Facebook page. Brian's books can be found on  Amazon .

There seems to be two distinct evolutionary variations of human beings emerging, not differences in physicality or intelligence but a psychological difference, a distinct fork in the human evolutionary road too profound to be attributed to simple cultural or generational differences. One variation that is emotionally driven and one that is rationally driven. These aren't matters of maturity or ignorance like we so often want to believe but an actual evolutionary variation in people's psychology where either emotions or rational is the predominant psychological driving force in one's life. The emotional variation, E-type, is characterized by a lack of mental attention, consistency, curiosity, courage, and effort resulting in irrationality, gullibility, and emotionalism. E-types value feelings above all else. They tend to suffer more from emotional problems such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and emotional volatility. They tend to be more creative, artistic, loving a