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Harvested as part of thinning to reduce fire danger.
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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Chesterton’s Perspective a Century Back
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” (1924) “This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.” (1919) “The reformer is Read more
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A Montana Made Movie I Missed in the 70s
I didn’t see Thunderbolt and Lightfoot when it first came out – and later I spent several years working along the highline where it was filmed. It showed up on youtube – free to view if you’re willing to put up with ads – and, with the familiarity with the area, and the fact that Read more
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A Carbine in a Pistol Caliber
It’s reached a point where 9mm ammunition is the cheapest centerfire cartridge available. When I was younger, that title belonged to 38 Specials – but somewhere along the years, it moved to the old 9mm parabellum. Back in the revolver day, it made sense (at least to me) to have a revolver and a lever Read more
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When Hallie and Winton Prayed Me Better
My thoughts go back almost 35 years – to a time with a vertebrae smashed with a compression fracture, a brace that I wore constantly, and a 10 pound lifting limit. Fundamentally, the back part of the vertebrae had been converted to bone mush, and I was fortunate in having trained people calmly get me Read more
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A Cartoon to Learn From
I noticed this cartoon – and it holds a message that doesn’t come from the typical guidance counselor’s office: It’s a slightly different way of displaying the bell curves that explain IQ (intelligence, the G factor) The article describes parts of the author’s life after the brain injuries associated with multiple concussions – “Two standard Read more
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The Perpich Case
In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled that the National Guard is controlled by the federal government and not an independent state militia. It wasn’t a second amendment case – the governor of Minnesota was objecting to the Minnesota Guard being sent to Central America. He lost at the Supreme Court – “Held: Article I’s plain Read more
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