Outlaw Was His Name Slick Bates was mighty happy when I visited with him at the Drover’s Café. He had been down to the livestock auction and sold an old renegade horse for 78 cents a pound. Now, selling a horse by the pound means it got bought by the canners. I don’t suppose I […]
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Haywire Hullabaloo by Stephen Bly and Podcast
When Everything Goes Haywire I was watching news on television as scientists explained what went haywire with the big old Hubble telescope. Seems like an ironic expression. A billion dollar telescope goes haywire? I wondered if those NASA officials had ever been around real haywire before. Some words are too good to keep on the […]
Old Time Cowboy Shouts, “Look Out!”
Sometimes we get the idea that every old time cowboy was so tough he didn’t run from anything. According to some pulp writers, he faced down enemy attacks from every direction. He could turn a thousand head of stampeding cattle. Face down a dozen gunfighters in the street. Ride through the desert with a hundred […]
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