Category Archives: The Pipe Pundit

Alive in That Electric Vibe

Fred Brown I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs – Albert Einstein, 1950 I’m late with this column this month […]

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Mr. Brog: Polish Pipes, the Pride of Przemysl

Fred Brown Rising from the calamity of World War II in Europe, a small woodworking shop in Przemysl, Poland, by the San River, began looking around for new ways to […]

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A Taste in Time: Stonehenge Flakes

Fred Brown This is not a "tobaccoreviews.com", a Pipestud, or a Jiminks type of tobacco review. I’m not in that league. But I just wanted to jot down a few […]

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Trashcan Diving in Shelby Foote’s Bedroom

Fred Brown Ok, boys and girls, gather around. The Pipe Pundit is going to delve into a few thorny intricacies of the care and feeding of a pipe. This is […]

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The Other Side of the Street

Fred Brown Well, go on with you, now. The FDA is taking a breather from its ransacking of the tobacco industry, especially pipe tobacco, so the story goes in a […]

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Slower than a One-Legged Rooster

Fred Brown You know the routine: Things don’t seem to be going the way they once did. You are slower on the upbeat and too fast on the downbeat. Out […]

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Outflanked but Not Outdone

Fred Brown In the four decades I first discovered the joys of pipe smoking, I have learned that life changes when you aren’t looking. Leave the room and when you […]

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Make Mine Einsteinian

Fred Brown What the Hades is going on? Was I asleep when the doors closed on sanity? Is nothing sacred any longer? Yes, the times they are a-changing, but who […]

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Listening to Rick and to Reason

Fred Brown If you haven’t read Rick Newcombe’s The FDA’s Unauthorized War on Pipes and Cigars at Reason.com you should right now. The piece appeared Dec. 13 on the web […]

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Pipe Dreaming Ain’t California Dreamin’

Fred Brown What a whacky world we live in. Just in case you missed it, citizens in Denver, the Mile-High City (no longer measured in altitude but in post pot […]

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