Sam Duffy

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BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY

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Wikitionary (yes, that’s a word and a thing) defines “busman’s holiday” thus: “First recorded in 1893 in the UK. The idea is that a busman,...

A SAD AND MEANINGFUL ANNIVERSARY

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Thirty years ago today – April 11, 1986 – what may have been the most studied gunfight of the Twentieth Century took place in...

IGOLD

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With the anti-gun stronghold of Chicago, nobody thought the state of Illinois the last holdout against lawful concealed carry would ever pass a shall-issue...

A WHALE OF A TALE…

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…and a tale of a whale.  I just finished “In the Heart of the Sea” by Nathaniel Philbrick, an exhaustively researched account of the...

THIRTY OR FORTY YEARS LATER

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A few days ago, I was passing through the Panhandle of Florida and got to spend dinner with a guy I hadn’t seen in...