Linda Brady Traynham
Farewell Dear Linda R.I.P 1941 – 2011
Saturday, December 24th, 2011Today I was informed that a dear friend, great mind, and driving force behind the creation of The Texas Ring, Linda Brady Traynham had passed on the 20th of December. Linda was a prolific writer. Very few probably realize how much she contributed in such a short time. If you Google search her name here you [...]
“Are You Ready For Some CENSORSHIP?”
Monday, October 10th, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham I had planned to entitle today’s article “I’m a Racist,” but that was before I heard about the Hank Williams, Jr., “controversy.” Of course I’m a “racist,” and so are you. Well, I’m not a “racist,” exactly, because I don’t care what color anyone’s skin is, but I am certainly “prejudiced” [...]
What’s a GDP Really?
Friday, August 26th, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham My first semester in college I signed up for a class in Economics because I wanted to know. At the end of the first day I dropped and took something sensible, Russian, I think. The Professor blithered away for his 50 minutes about the “gross domestic product,” and even at barely [...]
Define “Default”
Sunday, July 10th, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham Weekends make me nervous, what with stock markets open elsewhere and politicians conniving behind closed doors. The “crisis” over the debt “ceiling” has all the reality of a Punch and Judy show and stopped being amusing a long time ago. Everyone is posturing, nobody is serious, both sides will claim victory [...]
Fahrenheit 81
Monday, June 20th, 2011Linda Brady Traynham Back in the Carter years a fairly affluent friend said, “I wouldn’t mind how big the electricity bills were if the house were even comfortable.” The friends here last week commented that they have the thermostat on 78 during the day and 81 at night, and I felt faint. Quite literally when [...]
Coming Soon to The Ring
Monday, June 6th, 2011Linda Brady Traynham While off prospecting in the wilds of New Yawk City I discovered two new writers! That is to say, RING quality writers. Alaska Sense is an articulate prepper who faces conditions smilingly that make me quail and speaks humorously of the abuses of government. You’re going to love him. Second, Mike and [...]
The Old Rooster’s Dead
Monday, May 30th, 2011Linda Brady Traynham Some lessons hurt every time we get them, particularly those we know intellectually could happen but don’t really expect to happen to US…or…at least not yet. A large, feral dog struck last night. Even if the tracks hadn’t told us where he came from we would have known because country people don’t [...]
Kinetic Energy
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011Linda Brady Traynham | I really wanted to call this one “The Trebuchet and Kinetic Energy,” but I wasn’t certain even real fans would have opened a thing like that, although that IS where we’re going to start. A tray-boo-SHAY is a superior form of catapult which does not involve whacking off long, thick golden [...]
Get a Horse
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011Linda Brady Traynham We all know where that phrase comes from in my circles, but considering the deplorable state of American “education,” it was a jibe thrown at idiots having trouble with their new-fangled auty-mobiles or causing problems. I’m prepared for a reversal in public sentiment and a revival of that phrase becauses getting a [...]
Some Days You Eat The Bear
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham Some days you eat the bear because the bear has eaten someone else–who really asked for it. Suppose that you have a 12,000 acre spread with all the trimmings and over a thousand head of the most famous Black Angus cattle in the world. Your third best bull is worth over [...]