Sam Flambee of Minnesota, recently released from a ten-year sentence for arson, has applied to become a ...
The USA, I"m sorry to see, is currently behind China in gold medals, 17-12. And oh dear, there’s Britain, with only two gold medals. It’s only Wednesday night, though"end of the fifth day, eleven still to go. I’m sure the old country will perk up and gather a few more ...
It's called "liberty." Oh, but perhaps it doesn't fit in with Chicago values ...
Growing up in England, one didn’t hear much about the American Civil War. England’s own Civil War loomed larger in our education and imaginations, though it had been fought two centuries earlier than the American conflict. A key battle in our Civil War took place a dozen miles from my ...
"It's the fault of my research assistants Mandy, Candy, and ...
Or if they don’t, we can take them apart. We do not want the bolt lock pin to be tight in the bolt. We want it to be tight in the bolt lock, or locking block.... Damn these pins! Pins are a huge enemy. Excuse me: I am working my way through a DVD put out by the American Gunsmithing ...
Back in 1982 a faction of Lebanese Arabs massacred Palestinian Arabs at two refugee camps in Beirut. The Israeli army, in the neighborhood at the time, was accused of turning a blind eye to the killings. Hearing of this, Menachem Begin famously muttered: “Goyim kill goyim, and they blame the ...
It’s a slow news week and I’m temporarily out of outrageous opinions, so here are my recollections of being down and out in Southeast Asia in 1972. Apologies to George Orwell, with whom I am not attempting to compete. I would not dare. It took me three months"late June to late ...
