President Harry S. Truman's angry response to a music critic who panned his daughter Margaret

By Jack Brummet, Presidents/Music Ed.

In 1950, President Harry S. Truman wrote a much loved reply to Washington Post music critic Paul Hume’s review of his daughter, Margaret's singing appearance  (Hume: “Miss Truman cannot sing very well").

The president fired off his response: 

"I've just read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an ‘eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay.’

 “It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppy-cock as was in the back section of the paper you work for, it shows conclusively that you're off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work. 

“Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!”

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Poem: Water in motion

By Jack Brummet

Water in perpetual motion
Drifts into the troposphere
Accumulates and returns to earth
To join ice rain and snow
In the hills and mountains
Rolling into aquifers and underground lakes
Chasms fissures streams
Valleys craters hollows
Creeks rivers lakes and oceans―
The only thing on earth
That never gets old.
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Painting: Flash

By Jack Brummet

[pen and acrylic on 3 x 4 foot masonite panel]

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Reading Positions

[image provenance unknown

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Drawings: Faces No. 533 - scratchboard

By Jack Brummet

And digitally reversed:

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Drawing: The second date

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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Image: Fraternal robot twins

By Jack Brummet

[hand-drawn, scanned and digitally edited/enhanced]

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It's Friday! Blow or send someone a kiss...

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

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Crosswalk civil disobedience in Russia. . .

By Jack Brummet, Russia Ed.

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POTUS 41 (a/k/a President George H.W. Bush)—fishin'

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Can you pass the test given to Bullitt County Kentucky 8th graders in 1912?

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

This is a test given to Bullitt County, Kentucky eighth graders in 1912.  A copy was recently donated to the Bullitt County Historical Museum.  A lot has changed in the intervening century.  No one know what a passing score was.  Apparently the test was partly to help determine scholarships to high schools. 

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Sasquatch art

By Jack Brummet

Sasquatch ski surprise

Sasquatch platoon

stealth Bigfoot

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