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-Benjamin Franklin
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This Time Last Year: Freedom Convoy
Around this time last year, we were collecting headlines from the Canadian news and documenting the freedom rally that took place in Eureka. The internet being what it is, the headlines we’ve written are conserved, though not all of the original hyperlinks and pictures have been. Read more
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Thoughts on the National Debt
If you can solve a problem by writing a check, you have an expense. If writing a check won’t solve the problem . . . well, maybe the problem should be addressed directly instead of by writing checks. On Friday the 13th, Janet Yellen sent a letter to the Speaker of the House saying that Read more
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In Search of the Perfect Cartridge
A friend shared an article about an ideal rifle cartridge. The thought brought back to mind a brief lecture delivered by Leonard Bull at Trinidad State – hearing his students arguing on the merits of different cartridges, Leonard was explaining why gunsmiths shouldn’t have favorite cartridges – “Everyone has the cartridge he likes. Your concerns Read more
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Linguistic Relativity
The concept of linguistic relativity has its origin in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis – a concept appearing a little before the second world war. While Edward Sapir was a noted linguist and anthropologist, Benjamin Whorf was a chemical engineer, who melded Sapir’s linguistic expertise along with the early studies of quantum physics to come up with Read more
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Thinking about Chickens
As the price of eggs continues to climb, thoughts about chicken farming continue to increase. I don’t recall any Extension Chicken specialists from my time with MSU Extension – though I did meet SDSU’s last Chicken Specialist around 2000. He was 80 then, and hadn’t retired as a chicken specialist. Chicken specialists don’t get a Read more
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Next Summer’s Garden
The garden is still covered in snow. We will find out how the blackberries handled the -29 temperatures this coming summer – they are a bit more cold sensitive than our other brambles – but they have had several years for the roots to grow. Hopefully they have survived. In January, it’s a good time Read more
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