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Traffic was a bit unusual this week. While the usual events (the food giveaway on Friday at the community hall, for example) backed up traffic…
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Thoughts on Short-barreled Rifles and Braced Pistols
Years ago, when Congress put a $200 transfer tax on machine guns and silencers, they also put that tax on short-barreled rifles. A short-barreled rifle has a barrel less than 16 inches according to law, which was a fairly…
A Tater Tot Hot Dish
Some dishes are local staples. I recall stopping in at a restaurant in Scotland, South Dakota, where the population is mostly of German descent, and they were cooking Haggis. With a Scots surname, I didn’t get a choice in what I ordered – I was given “Haggis”. Robert Burns wouldnae hae recognized it – by the time the South Dakota ladies had modified the recipe, it was downright tasty – worthy of a second helping. Brookings, on the other hand, was a spot where tater tot casseroles showed up with amazing regularity – weddings, funerals, potlucks – the tater tots…
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North Moved Since I Was a Kid
I’ve been blessed to live and work in locations where there is a large difference between true north and magnetic north. On many occasions, I’ve made a living looking through a transit, or pulling a chain to measure distances – though my modern chains were either steel or cloth tapes. Still, as I pulled out…
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The Decimation of the American Bison
I’ve unpacked The American Buffalo in Transition by J. Albert Rorabacher. It’s available on kindle as well, and it is a good read. In his chapter “The Decimation of the American Bison” Rorabacher does explain how 60 million bison were reduced to well under a thousand during the 19th century – and he explains the hunting pressures that made it so possible. “History records that the last free-roaming buffalo east of the Mississippi was killed in the early 1830’s and the majority were gone well before this.” (30) West of the Mississippi it was still the fur trade – but…
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