“My favorite melodramatic theme: the harried anarchist, a wounded wolf, struggling toward the green hills, or the black-white alpine mountains, or the purple-golden desert range and liberty. Will he make it? Or will the FBI shoot him down on the … Continue reading
In the Whitmer household, any of us, age 5 to 39, might break out singing this at any moment. “She [Jacqueline Kennedy] tells Schlesinger, when the subject of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights is raised, that she … Continue reading
Colorado’s had its share of bad men. By way of example, there’s Robert Ford who killed Jesse James and was himself gunned down in Creede. And there’s Colonel John Chivington who led up the Sand Creek Massacre, butchering hundreds of … Continue reading
“The sudden scarcity of jobs in the early 1930s forced a huge number of men to hit the road. Certainly some coins were carved to fill the idle hours. More importantly, a ‘knight of the road,’ with no regular source … Continue reading
NPR’s World Cafe looks back on the Louvin Brothers and Merle Haggard. “The detective sighed and said, ‘Mr. Warden, I will shoot the very first one of you to put a hand on my prisoners and then I’ll shoot one … Continue reading
I like Hornady. Their +P 230 gr HP XTP rounds are what I use in my carry gun, because I’ve never had a jam with them, they have a good track record of penetration and expansion, and they’re easy for … Continue reading
“Like a fat something-awful: hockey-player-pumpkin-cartoon-shithead.” Francis Bean Cobain X Scumfuck. I think I’m supposed to be upset or something by this, not amused. “I wanted to meet what there was here to meet. But they seem to have scented my … Continue reading
But it’s getting to the point where I pretty much equate tactical with dumb. And here’s a good example as to why: Even if you can overlook how silly most of the exercises seem for anything even approaching reasonable self-defense … Continue reading
“In 1898, the Parisian art gallery owner Maurice Joyant photographed his childhood friend defecating on the beach at Le Crotoy, Picardie. The series of photos would have been forgotten, had Joyant’s friend not been Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the acclaimed French … Continue reading
“’The history of literature’ should not be synonymous with ‘the evolution of literature,’ because to think that way seems to me to be narrow minded, flawed, and Jonathan Franzen.” The Adjustment. “For even the best of them (with a few … Continue reading
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