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Shooting Straight with the Gray Ghost, Take Two
By T.W. Burger at January 14, 2013 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
On the morning of January 17, 1989, a loser named Patrick Purdy attacked Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California. He fired more than 100 rounds from a Chinese assault rifle, killing five children and wounding more than 30. Purdy then… Read the rest
[...read more]Something Wrong With the Math
By T.W. Burger at September 25, 2012 | 10:13 am | 0 Comment
I have a good friend, an economist by training, and the former head of a hedge fund, who is always giving me grief about my liberal economic views. I like this guy. We usually get together a couple of times… Read the rest
[...read more]Twist and Creak
By T.W. Burger at September 6, 2012 | 2:07 pm | 0 Comment
We shuffled and limped into the theater in downtown Gettysburg, men and women of a certain age. Some waggishly wore hippy gear; head-bands, tie-dyed shirts and skirts, and so on. Frankly, the gear looked better on us all a few… Read the rest
[...read more]A Promise in a Mean Season
By T.W. Burger at August 15, 2012 | 10:36 am | 0 Comment
The other day, as I cruised around on Facebook, I did something I don’t believe I’ve ever done before.
I made fun of an individual for his grammatical and spelling errors in an anti-Obama comment he had made to a… Read the rest
[...read more]PSU, Jerry Sandusky, and a Familiar Darkness
By T.W. Burger at July 13, 2012 | 8:18 pm | 0 Comment
Rock the Capital ran this column back on November 15, 2011. I wrote it, after 50 years of silence. And then I put a pen-name on it. I have been unhappy with myself about that. My decision to tell the… Read the rest
[...read more]Gas Prices and Imaginary Arm-Twisting
By T.W. Burger at March 30, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
Check out this photo. I found it late one night while poking around on the web. I wasn’t paying really close attention to the text at the time, but the author said something like “If something isn’t done about the… Read the rest
[...read more]The Gossamer T-Shirt and the Old White Guys
By T.W. Burger at February 29, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
By any reasonable standard, the shirt is a disgrace.
Over the period of the three or more decades I’ve owned it, various women with whom I have shared my life have insisted that it should be thrown away, or consigned… Read the rest
[...read more]Wrestling with the Rock
By T.W. Burger at February 16, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
When I bought this place nearly 20 years ago, I found it a very strange thing, this idea that I could own a small rectangle of the planet along a small creek near the Mason-Dixon Line.
All these years later… Read the rest
[...read more]Tips on Training the City-Bred
By T.W. Burger at January 12, 2012 | 12:41 pm | 1 Comments
I had an adventure a few years back that reminds me how much fun it is to live in a small town.
I was sitting on the tailgate of my pickup truck at a local building supply store, watching a… Read the rest
[...read more]Ghosts on the River
By T.W. Burger at December 31, 2011 | 6:20 pm | 4 Comments
Three days before the year’s end, and the weather had turned suddenly colder.
Scattered fat snowflakes darted through the scrub oaks clinging to the steep banks of the Shenango River in western Pennsylvania, a 100-mile long tributary of the Beaver… Read the rest
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