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Unregistered
Bull
Choice gleanings
from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull
The Wall Street Journal is one of
our favorite newspapers. It presents a large
variety of news in concise fashion and manages to
make its feature stories interesting even when
they concern things we don't savvy, such as Big
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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
I have found why some people move to
Hawaii and never come back to the mainland. It's
not that the place is so beautiful that nobody
can bear to leave it. The fact is that if you
venture off too far from the hotel, you never can
get back because nobody but a native can
pronounce the names of the streets. |
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
Just before winter sets in, the area
around the ranch smells the way hot dogs smell
roasting on a campfire. The aroma must come from
mesquite leaves floating to the ground. Now that
my children are grown, I never buy the staple
foodstuff of old. After the boys left, the
half-filled Skippy peanut butter and imitation
grape jelly jars fermented in the ranch
refrigerator, and the menu shifted to solid food. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
The latest news is that the biggest
hog producer in the U.S., Smithfield Foods,
announced it will acquire Tyson's pork business
as well as number two, Murray Family Farms. If
both deals are approved, Smithfield's production
will be 19 million hogs annually, totaling 13
percent of United States hog slaughter. |
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Linda
Mussehl
As
I See It ...
I feel like I've been living in a
cartoon lately. Somehow I've been cast as the
dupe, the patsy, the bumbling dolt by a small
bunch of wily mice. Tom and Jerry — and
their children, cousins and in-laws, their
neighbors and friends — have moved into my
kitchen. And they've come to stay. |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
An animal rights group is trying to get
the town of Fishkill, New York, to change its
name because some fish may find the name
offensive. If they're successful in New York,
surely the animal rightists will not allow the
towns of Killdeer, N.D., Slaughter, La., and
Dyer, Ark., to keep their names. If this
precedent is established can you imagine how many
politically incorrect towns will have to rename
themselves? |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
Quail hunting tales have
been a mixed bag thus far. Just over a month into
the quail season, some Texas hunters are flush
with success, while others' hopes were left,
quite literally, in the dust. And some blue quail
hunters have others of us green with envy. |
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