McCain's Corner

8 Nov 2001 Vote in Oxford MS, or you put the lime in the coconut

Published on 2011-11-08 17:10:00

Just got back from voting and for reason only known to a very few this song came to me.   Amazing turn out by the way, throngs of citizens out.   Something must have the folk stirred up.  Suspect someone might get a political whupping by tomorrow.  I will make sure I will leave the TV off tonight as the thought of the Talking Heads going on and on about nothing while they wait on the results is a torture I am not braced enough to endure.  

Guy Fawkes In Mississippi

Published on 2011-11-05 10:10:00

 Guy Fawkes is remembered as, 'the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions,' which very probably is true.  No longer hung and burned in effigy, rather now, he is celebrated as a Man of All Time. So lift a class tonight laddies and lassies for the Guy....   A sidebar, that is how the word 'guy' came into English. Odd that the 'occupy' movement likes to use him as a symbol, as he stood for the precise opposite of what they stand for.  I suspect most of the

The Deed is Done

Published on 2011-09-27 10:03:00

Have been busy with my book Finding the McCains. It is done for better or worse.   First letter out to a publisher this week. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed.  I needs the paycheque.  Nice to have the book finished, now on to the next writing project, a short history of the Laggan Redshanks.  The book is part memoir and part history.  The memoir chronicles my 40 year odyssey to find our McCain family in Ireland and then a sort history of the family from mid Argyll ci