Category Archives: The Pipe Pundit

Briar-Brained for a New Year

Fred Brown You’ve often heard people claim how they are "right-brained," or "left-brained." I won’t go into some of the other "brain" word games, i.e., lame brain, no-brainer, brain-dead, scatter-brained, […]

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Some Pundit Thoughts at Christmas

Fred Brown It has been quite sad to learn of Danish pipe maker Peter Heeschen’s recent death. The older one gets, the more the death of friends and acquaintances hit […]

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A Law Is Only a Law, But Tobacco Is Tobacco

Fred Brown Okay, I am losing it. The Food and Drug Administration has re-written its so-called rules. I’m not making this up. The FDA has decided that it needs to […]

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Bespeaking a Kindly Heart

Fred Brown Recently, I opined about a story I had read in PipesMagazine.com concerning a veteran pipe maker and how much I enjoyed the piece. Today, just as we are […]

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Happy Feet from the Amen Corner

Fred Brown Would it really blow your skull into giblet bits if you learned that your FDA (they work for us, you know) in all of its wisdom created a […]

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Of Mencken and Tobacco Zombies

Fred Brown First, a few words from the old newspaper cynic, author and official American curmudgeon, H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), the "Sage of Baltimore":: The most dangerous man to any government […]

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My Soul for Another Pipe

Fred Brown Notes and things: It’s a jungle out there. We know that, instinctively, but now there is more bad news: I just read in a pipe newsletter that because […]

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The Codger Effect

Fred Brown I’m not sure where this is going, but I’ve never let that stop me in the past. The other day, while looking up some statistics on pipe tobacco […]

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Get Thee Hence to Chicago

Fred Brown Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show is the Super Bowl of pipe shows, the megafauna of pipes and tobacco. Count yourself fortunate, smiled upon by the tobacco gods, […]

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What Would Maude Do?

Fred Brown In this, our current winter of storms and tantrums and the solid silence of ice and snow, and as the years advance, it has become more and more […]

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