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Westerns Episode 19, The Long Riders (1980)
In this final episode in the series, Dr. Fleming looks at Walter Hill’s 1980 film The Long Riders, which offers a look-in at the James-Younger gang and their exploits in Missouri and elsewhere.
Putting on the Ritz Crackers, Conclusion
No one today, it seems, can pursue a hobby, escape a vice, or suffer a tragedy without submitting himself to the ministrations of “professional” experts.
Puttin’ On the Ritz Crackers
I used to take some care in cutting and lighting my cigars, but the sight of the aficionados at work, many of whom have less taste in cigars than the affected young man, has driven me to biting the end off and snatching a light from a pack of cheap matches or from the kitchen stove.
Wednesday’s Child: Curriculum Vitarum
In Sicily they say a cat has seven lives. I am now on my seventh, and the thought of it no more perturbs me than it does the tenacious feline.
How Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Invasion USA
The Daily Mail has just published an article by Todd Bensman, who has been in Colombia investigating the U.S. taxpayer funded system of importing Third World immigrants into the United States.
Wednesday’s Child: From my Balcony
Why would an American lad who probably describes himself to his friends as a pacifist want to look like a soldier of fortune? Why would an English lass who is probably vegan, or at least free of gluten, want to look like a Papuan cannibal?
Wednesday’s Child: An Unsavory Metaphor
My subject today is mildly unpleasant, but since it had fascinated me for quite some time I now decided to take the plunge.
Mr. Autodidact Is Asked : Where to Begin?
An academic friend about go on a sabbatical in England, writes to ask how he should remedy his deficiency in Greek and Roman history and wonders if it is not the sort of question I frequently receive.
The EU Iron Curtain
Freedom of expression is being targeted by the bureaucratic cliques in Brussels, and most recently they are doing it without any pretenses.
