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  1. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    I meant how is the brisket done, actually. But to each his own.
  2. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    How is it done?
  3. Fletch

    The Fit of Aero Jackets

    I'm thinking you might prefer goat for freedom of movement. It just seems to have more give than horse, and will more likely move with you than buckle or ride.
  4. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    Personally, I have no interest whatsoever in Uranus.
  5. Fletch

    New Goodwear Prices

    Jive would actually be pretty appropriate - if used in the sense that sometimes modifies the word turkey.
  7. Fletch

    Why doesn't the Golden Era extend to the 50s or early 60s?

    Of course some of us want to be the strikers and some of us want to be the goons. That's our choice to make, and our cross to bear.
  8. Fletch

    New Goodwear Prices

    Frankly, the customer's interests don't necessarily support quality - even as the customers want it. The territory between custom-made and mass-market is not nearly so big as the price differential might make you think. Being there seems to be a more-than-full-time job negotiating quality vs...
  9. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Not much point of a lunch counter if you can't wear your hat. It's supposed to be a democratic institution - at least since the early '60s anyway.
  10. Fletch

    New Goodwear Prices

    Apologies if I've said this before - in this thread anyway - but I can understand quite well if John might not have wanted help. Even trained help. Anyone you could trust with your standards might be someone you couldn't trust not to compete. He really was in a hell of a spot.
  11. Fletch

    Haters gotta hate. Or is it hatters?

    This used to be a common mistake. In the internet age, I am afraid, it is not a mistake, but a strategy. After all, when anyone can express hi/r opinion, no one's opinion counts but the most outspoken.
  13. Fletch

    Cardigans for casual gentlemen

    I really like the shawl cardigan, not just because it's a relic of 1920s style, but because it is pushing aside the memory of the "Late 20th Century Grampa" cardigan, with its acrylic waffle weave and bright pseudo-golfing colors, which tried to appear casual but was just stodgy.
  14. Fletch

    Art and the D.A.

    And the only solutions we're allowed, right now, are: a. More guns. b. Fewer guns. (N.B. I say this not to take a position on guns - the FL is not the place for that - but to make a statement about how powerful forces like media, lobbies, and elected officials shape and limit public debate.)
  15. Fletch

    Why doesn't the Golden Era extend to the 50s or early 60s?

    Foxer is part right. There were people, even communities, in that era who didn't believe in helping others in any way at all. Today we'd call them sociopaths, and their communities sick.
  16. Fletch

    Why doesn't the Golden Era extend to the 50s or early 60s?

    I think WW2 took a lot of the live-and-let-live out of American society. Fighting any war reinforces authoritarian values and male supremacy, because your soldiers need those things just to survive war, never mind win it. Our 1930s culture was beginning to get soft about the roles of men vs...
  17. Fletch

    Why doesn't the Golden Era extend to the 50s or early 60s?

    I would counter that without individuals - and more than that, without a basic idea of the dignity of individuals - society is not much more than a machine for stepping on ants.
  19. Fletch

    Why doesn't the Golden Era extend to the 50s or early 60s?

    Was it perhaps a misstep to begin teaching ethics alongside, or in place of, morals? Is a society stronger when its members act to honor it in the abstract, and not just as a collection of individual interests? I don't just mean Me's. I mean You's as well. What's the proper focus on the...
  20. Fletch

    Allen Edmonds' Broadstreet's return!

    Look out. They'll disappear as fast as they came back in.
  21. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Another LoC non-Shorpy, and a breath of spring - or should I say summer. Leaving the White House after an audience with FDR on June 25, 1938, are Willis Mahoney, l, 3-time-loser Democratic candidate for Senator from Oregon, and Frank McNinch, r, chairman that year of first the Federal Power...
  22. Fletch

    Gentlemen - Delicate Question Regarding Bathroom Decor

    Blevitt is good 'cause it's already a proper name. Like Crapper, where it would be installed. However, it might be confused with blivet.
  23. Fletch

    A test sample cotton twill flight jacket?

    Would some have had old-stock zippers? Probably too early for repros. And if not old-stock, would they have corroded ±30 years later?

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