Sam Duffy
BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY
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
Thirty years ago today – April 11, 1986 – what may have been the most studied gunfight of the Twentieth Century took place in...
IGOLD
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…
…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
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...