No Afghans, no masks, no vaccines? This is what my lifelong if sometimes eye-rolling and irritated
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Murder, Mercy Killing, or Suicide??
Last month, two of the most important outdoor magazines ever, Outdoor Life and Field and Stream ceased to exist. They might hang around in some electronic form or other for a while, but make no mistake; they are gone. They covered the outdoor scene for seventy-five years or more, with Field and Stream doing the …
Murmurations
I love these strange flocks — they are like another level of organization altogether.
Caliban
A horrified Lucas Machias sent me this link and several other sources confirmed it : A band of chimpanzees in a reserve had killed and eaten two young gorillas. Lucas was as horrified as the writers, who stressed that this had never happened before. I am more cynical, as I suspect other people who have …
Tim’s Excellent Adventure
In 2010 Tim Gallagher went to Mexico to investigate the plight of the Imperial woodpecker. Various border hands I knew, like Chuck Bowden and J P S Brown (who had owned a ranch in the Sierra Madre) warned us that it might be a very dangerous trip. Tim went anyway, and encountered ecological devastation and …
Politics
Favorite conservative: : Michael Oakeshotte Favorite Bolshevik: Leon Trotsky Favorite Anarchist: Prince Pyotr Kropotkin
Creeps and Don Roberto
This painting is by Joseph Crawhall, a British artist who lived in Spain (in a brothel), stayed drunk, and died at 34. Nevertheless, he seemed to be a happy man. Of him, Don Roberto wrote : Although he spoke to no one, it was evident that he had seen not only every person in the …
They Had Feathers, Damnit!
…was what I wanted to call my last article for Cornell’s Living Bird A new team at the magazine, all under forty as all such people are, had decided that they could eliminate some of the magazine’s perpetual debt by firing all the nature writers. Nature writers do not make enough to relieve any excess …
Four Books
There of my friends have written good new books about the southwest recently. I hope to have more to say about them later; I thought you should at least know they existed. From Dennis Michael McCarthy, a novelist, biologist, and lawyer, comes the best treatment of Billy the Kid I’ve known in a long time. …
Andrew Haslen
That I have Parkinson’s disease is infuriating, depressing, and sometimes impossible. That Andrew Haslen, the liveliest and most original portrayer of birds of prey in England, has it is a crime against nature. Here’s a sample of his work for a new edition of Game Hawk.