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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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To Cook a Wild Turkey
Things are not always as they appear. I’m used to domestic turkeys, purchased from a grocery store, stuffed and baked. Frankly, it’s easy to do a passable job cooking a domestic turkey, and that experience doesn’t transfer readily to a wild turkey. After screwing up, I realized that it would be more appropriate to research Read more
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Covid- Looking at the Numbers
We’re starting to see the big numbers showing up on Covid – 46,490,733 total cases to date and 760,551 deaths ( usafacts.org). Likewise, I see more cases, and more deaths, among friends and neighbors. For quick and sloppy math, let’s assume 50 million cases in a population of 330 million – the numbers aren’t exactly Read more
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We All Have Dark Skinned Ancestors
Race is a social construct. The incontrovertible evidence has only been uncovered recently, as DNA analysis became more a mature technology – but the theoretical explanation has been out there at least since I was an undergraduate in the sixties. White skin color is pretty much an accident, requiring the correct set of genes, and Read more
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Thoughts on Drafting Women
I grew up in a nation where the draft was normal. Came back from college for Thanksgiving break, drove into town and registered for the draft on Friday. A while later, I got my first message from the draft board, granting me a II-S student deferment. Many of my classmates had graduated high school holding Read more
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The Last Week of Hunting Season
I have a bit less than 2 miles of road frontage – over a mile of it wide and paved. The forest is thick on trees, and thin on distance – which translates to many spots where it is difficult for the casual shooter to know his or her backstop. I’ve seen careless, desperate hunters Read more
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Trego and the American Community Survey
Montana’s American Community Survey is composed from the final interviews conducted with 10,138 households in the state. Since Montana has 519,935 households, the chance of any household being in the final interview is 10,138 out of 519,935 = 0.0195, right around 2% of the population is included in the survey. Since Tregp shows 295 households, Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 