WHY THE BIRDS?

This emerged from a conversation with my cousin, who with her husband, is well known in literary circles. They claim that if I am to be taken seriously, I should drop The Birds. At the same time I pointed out that the rags they write for - Newsweek and the Daily Beast - featured 50 Shades of Grey on the front cover with EXPLICIT excerpts within, and have a real-life porn star as a feature writer, who dishes up garbage for the elite to dine on. In the meantime I'm the reprobate. Whatever . . . S.L.


Perhaps this is the best time to explore why I post cheesecake pics on a site dedicated to honor, philosophy, and military themes? Simple: since time immemorial warriors have decorated chariots, ships, victory monuments and wall lockers with scanitly clad, beautiful women:

Figurehead tall ship Golden Hind

Back when it was the Army Air Corp the paint schemes on the planes were so much cooler.

Incredibly risqué in her time, Betty's coy over-the-shoulder come hither pose is now considered a timeless classic.


OK I'll stop now before I get off-topic - I could dedicate an entire post to WWII bomber nose art and pinup girls - the point is there was once a time our society was advanced and mature enough to handle images of scantily clad women, babes, dolls, femmes, dames and members of the opposite sex, without a bunch of phony offense. In carrying on this warrior tradition I'm told I'm a pornographer by 'real' journalists . . . meanwhile the Keepers of the Flame over at Newsweek pump pure filth into the direct mainstream but that's okay because it's 'cultural'. Yeah R-I-I-I-G-H-T . . .


"That's my story and I'm sticking to it."

STORMBRINGER SENDS