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4th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner at the Community Hall
This year, a traditional sit-down meal will be possible (though it isn’t the only option). The dinner is taking place at both the community hall…
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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…
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 right, but it’s a lot easier to figure that 5 out of every 33 Americans have had covid. We can argue that unreported cases increase the numbers. We can argue that poor testing inflates the numbers. Regardless, it’s going to be on the order of…
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 cereal based agriculture to make my pale skin better for soaking up sunlight in the northern latitudes and producing vitamin D. Some northern dwellers didn’t turn pale – their food sources were rich in vitamin D. Somewhere around 7,000 years ago, northern European grain farmers…
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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…
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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 shooting at a spot where the trailer court, or eastern neighbors homes are the backstop – walking the road in the evening and seeing the spots where a light gleams through the trees shows some of the spots where a bullet can go through unimpeded.…
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