From the NYT, courtesy of Reid: “… gun control in Russia is less strict than in some other former Soviet countries. Estonia, for example, proscribes carrying a weapon while drunk. “If they did that here, well, nobody would hunt,” said Igor V. Anisimov, the Izhmash director of foreign sales.”
Month: August 2012
“Some good “Doggie” news !”
…writes John Hill, “Johnny UK” of Norfolk: an anecdotal antidote to the gloom in the post below. “It was the Finals Day at the Wildfowlers Gundog Training classes yesterday… June decided to come as well, as she had been to a few classes, and wanted to see how Poppy competed… We all registered,and were all …
A R Follies Continued
I would rather write about things I enjoy, but I can’t let Retrieverman do all the work… and no, a pig’s relations with humans are not the same as a dog’s, regardless of the pig’s formidable intelligence. You keep hearing that such people as the HSUS and their allies have become less fanatical, have evolved, …
Next Time?
Tavi didn’t quite figure it out, yet…
Pigeon Art
By Jose Morales y Serrano of Sevilla and Albuquerque. This was for the first ed of Aloft. I also have “Kneeling woman with English Carrier” somewhere in the archives…
Pluvialis Sighting
Reports on Helen’s work in progress– here and here. A quote from the first: ” I’m busy writing that book. The one about grief and goshawks and death and love and landscape and home and, well. All the things.” And from the second: “It is the story of a journey into wildness with a creature …
Road Classics
Thesis: the three great American “Road” books are Lolita; On the Road; and one you may not know, Roger Tory Peterson’s Wild America. Nabokov and Peterson came out in 1955, like my favorite Chevy, my parent’s second car and the first they bought new that I can remember; as far as I know, Kerouac finished …
Hot Links
I had seen this mentioned in the Denver Post a little while back – a crack is endangering part of the Cliff Palace ruin at Mesa Verde National Park. Visitors have been kept away from one of the kivas at the cliff dwelling. Our friend Kathy Fiero was in charge of ruins stabilization at the …
Quote: on the multiplication of laws…
“…I noticed years ago that people who agitate for more [YOUR ISSUE HERE] laws tend to be wholly ignorant of the existing laws. I am wiser now, and realize that everyone who agitates for more X laws is ignorant of existing X laws, and probably ignorant of X.”– Neutrino Cannon
Separated at Birth?
Peculiar and Mrs Peculiar have been regular patrons of the Santa Fe Opera since they were students at St John’s there. Mr P has always had a sideline in opera criticism (use search on the O & P blog for older examples), in addition to his guiding and photography. His review of the normal fare …