Malcolm dissents

Malcolm Brooks, author of Painted Horses and a capital- F Friend of Q, was so appalled by an Adam Gopnik anti- gun rant in the New Yorker that he wrote the furious and sometimes even funny riposte below. Turns out he was “baited” with an old essay, but the truth remains. Apparently no one at …

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Worst Design Idea EVER

From California Home and Design, proving once and for all that everything you suspected about California is true… To quote them, “Enter the second-floor 1908 library… Designing for a modern family, DeSousa was challenged to fill the shelves with real books when today most are read with an iPad. With the help of Bookbythefoot.com, a …

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Stunningly Stupid

… even for “Reality” TV. Paul Domski writes: “The Discovery Channel has a program called “Naked and Afraid” where they send people to exotic places with no clothes or food and watch them as make their living, what a thrill right?  Anyway a recent episode shot in Bolivia featured this A-hole apparently killing and roasting …

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It is official

You might have figured it out in comments below but it is official: because the Feds are allowing a three- decade exemption for wind farms to kill as many eagles as they “need” to, and because they exert no pressure on tribal use (right and understandable for religious practice, but ignoring the profitable if clandestine …

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Another dumb quote

From a review in the New Yorker for 27 August: “Buying a car, Grescoe writes “is the beginning of a spiral through selfishness, road rage, and anomie, one whose ultimate goal is the mall or the gated community”. Unless you, you know, live in the country. Do our coastal elites even “get” Upstate New York? …

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Rants & Raves

Abby Mouat runs an amazing gun catalog reprint press. I have both ordered from and contributed to it, and recommend it without reservation to my readers. But in the Internet world no good deed goes unpunished. Abby believes in letting the world see when you make a rude fool of yourself, and publishes the best …

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Neglected Book

Rebecca O’Connor’s Lift, her literary falconry memoir and one of the best falconer’s memoirs ever written, had such good press I thought it would automatically be come a success (this despite my having written to her about “… terrific reviews, indifferent agents, incompetent publishers, [and] few sales…”). But NOOO. She has sold only 411 copies. …

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