THE BIG HAIRY SCARY GUY

Day 17, 807 on this planet. It's 5:48, partly cloudy, 58 degrees out and Patrick is sleeping peadefully with Junior.

Sadahm Sindy is back in Crawford, the Darling of the MSM. She gave HER Mom, who just suffered a stroke, the pleasure of her company for a few days, then back to work being our nations current No. 1 asshole. Finally the MSM is giving some minor play to other Gold Star Moms (the vast Majority) who don't agree with Shehan.

Randall "Tex" Cobb was a heavyweight boxer who retired with a 43-7-1 record. He fought some of the best in his time, and is most noted for going 15 rounds in a title bout with Larry Holmes, around 1981 or so, losing every round, but never backing up, and never going down. At one point in the fight, he turned to the Ref and said, "You're white, help me." The Ref didn't, and Howard Cosell, ringside, was so horrified by the brutality of the fight, retired and never covered boxing again, a thing of which Cobb is very proud to this day.

Cobb was and is a colorful character, and had a career in Hollywood, appearing in about two dozen feature films as the lovable comic BIG HAIRY SCARY GUY kicking people's ass's.

I met Cobb in L.A. around 1983, give or take a year. I saw him in a night Club on PCH. He was leaning up against a bar, with his back to it looking like a huge ugly cave man, with his massive knuckles almost scrapping the floor, very recognizable. I took a very diminutive girl in our group with me, for protection, to go meet him. I said, "You're Tex Cobb, right? I just wanted to shake your hand." We shook and he looked at my slight companion and commented, "I bet she likes to be on top." I mumbled something like, "Uh, yeah, thanks." and we beat a hasty retreat. He definitely was an intimidating figure, and an authentic Western American Hero. So it goes.
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