by admin | Mar 24, 2012 |
Oh, controversy. Get thee behind me. Yes, I know a lot of you are, shall we say, not completely of open mind about the issue of gun ownership, but I am, nevertheless, compelled to speak my mind on the subject. I am myself a gun owner having a Browning 20 gauge secreted somewhere at my ranch. I even have some shotgun shells around, but I can only find them when I have no use for them. A few years ago in a fit of excessive gun safety, I bought and installed a trigger guard, and promptly lost the key. I’ve hunted off and on since the age of twelve, but not distinguished myself at it, and during my brief military career, I qualified, or at least shot, ...
by admin | Mar 17, 2012 |
In no particular order: What an odd country where health care is free but you can’t buy an aspirin. The best restaurants are private (paladares) which compete with state owned restaurants. Guess where all the gringos go. The state fights back though. They make the tour buses dump the tourists out at least four blocks from the private restaurants.. Artists are the elite of the country, but they mostly sell out of there home and you pay by wire transfer to another country. Their national ballet company is as good as any in the world, but their ballet theatre had restrooms with urinals torn out of the walls and no toilet paper. There’s an eight lane highway...