Maybe it’s the movies. We inexplicably expect life to be clean, tidy, and clear-cut. It just isn’t. It is so much easier to process the world around us when we fractionate people into all good or all bad.
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Alec Baldwin: The Gun Control Advocate Who Shot and Killed a Woman
Published: August 10, 2024 { 21 comments }Thursday, 21 October 2021, a handgun went off during the filming of the Alec Baldwin Western movie Rust. The cast and crew were rehearsing an upcoming scene inside a chapel used as a set for the film. The weapon was in Baldwin’s hands when it discharged.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Published: August 3, 2024 { 14 comments }It is difficult to appreciate the scope of World War 2. We modern folk simply have no frame of reference. It was death, tragedy, and destruction on a scale beyond our imagining.
Joe Medicine Crow: The Last American Indian War Chief
Published: July 24, 2024 { 9 comments }Joe was raised, for the most part, by his maternal step-grandfather, a respected Indian warrior named White Man Runs Him or simply Yellowtail.
The Assassination of the Saudi King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Published: July 18, 2024 { 37 comments }Human beings just suck, like a lot. We have a long and illustrious history of venting our grievances against our leaders through the barrel of a gun
Thomas Richards: The Incredible Hulk
Published: July 14, 2024 { 9 comments }I have reliable information that the Incredible Hulk is not technically real. Folks who are inadvertently exposed to massive doses of gamma radiation most typically have their hair fall out, puke up their entrails, and die.
Tom Landry: A Hero From a Generation of Heroes
Published: July 6, 2024 { 13 comments }While Landry was indeed a jock, he also enjoyed a brilliant analytical mind. Upon graduation from high school, he enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin studying industrial engineering. However, the vagaries of fate soon intervened.
The Legend of Baker Peak
Published: June 29, 2024 { 10 comments }One of the best-kept secrets thereabouts is the Ouachita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Comprising some 60,000 acres of rugged granite mountains, sweeping prairies, and freshwater lakes adjacent to Fort Sill to the north, the wildlife refuge was mesmerizing.
Human Nature, Assault Weapons, and the Massacre at Wounded Knee
Published: June 22, 2024 { 19 comments }The 2nd Amendment never was about hunting or sport shooting. It was about the Massacre at Wounded Knee and John Snowling’s mini massacre.
Armin Faber’s Infamous Focke-Wulf
Published: June 15, 2024 { 5 comments }In 1942, a Luftwaffe pilot named Armin Faber inadvertently and singlehandedly changed the calculus of the air war over Europe.










