Saturday, September 19, 2015

POTUS Lore: Who Can Beat Nixon?

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Ed.

From New York Magazine, Aug 16, 1971.  As it turns out, the answer was "not George McGovern."

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

POTUS in action: Presidents doing stuff

Jimmy Carter and an aide hop a fence at La Guardia to make a connection during the 1976 campaign

Future President Ike Eisenhower with General Omar Bradley and Winston Churchill on a tour of military bases

Candidate JFK riding a mule in the Chicago stockyards in the 1960 campaign

Gerald Ford Exercising

President George W. Bush fishing for bass

President Harry S. Truman bags a whopper


Cal Coolidge, 4th of July 1927

President Ronald W. Reagan, 1981

President Teddy Roosevelt hunts for bear, ca 1905

President Woodrow Wilson throws out the first baseball, 1916
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

drawing: cityCityCITY

By Jack Brummet



Detail:
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Middle fingers of the month (Betty White, Jennifer Lawrence, Curly Joe DeRita, Frank Gehry, Queen, Henry Fonda and more)

By Mona Goldwater (and the readers who submitted photos)


Betty White 
Unknown

Curly Joe DeRita

Frank Gehry

Henry Fonda & Katherine Hepburn

Unknown

Jennifer Lawrence

Queen

Unknown

 James Gandolfini

Vice President Rockefeller

Unknown

Scully & Mulder
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

More selfie madness




  • On August 30th in Orient, Maine, driver Jordan Toner, 29, attempted to lean into a seven-person selfie with his passengers, and crashed into a tree, causing numerous injuries. - WCSH-TV (Portland, Maine)
  • On August 24th, Alex Gomez, 36, of Lake Elsinore, Calif.,took a selfie after draping an angry four-foot-long rattlesnake around his neck. The bite was damaging but not fatal. - 8-30-2015 KCBS-TV (Los Angeles)
  • On September 1st in Housto,.a 19-year-old man was taking selfies while fondling his handgun. He died. - 9-2-2015 KPRC-TV (Houston).
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Drawing: Faces #1229 - Football season, opening day

By Jack Brummet


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