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Actually, I'm grateful he pointed out the passing of my profession. The half-dozen checks that show up in my post-office box each month from various magazines must be forgeries, and there'd be big trouble if I deposited them at our bank. Thanks to Don I'll remain free, if impoverished....
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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I am MAGA.
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What John said. As the allowable length of articles shrank, the writer was forced to leave out more and more background material and explanations. If you read some of Ken Waters work, you'll see what I mean. He sometimes spent 2,000 words describing his methodology for a given cartridge test. That's before he got into his results, which were just as extensively documented.
Today, what the reader gets is hardly more than an executive summary. Often, that doesn't do the subject justice at all.
I'm glad to be out of it, frankly. Just when you thought you were out, they will drag you back in!!! 
Its all right to be white!!
Stupidity left unattended will run rampant
Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience
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Campfire Regular
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The old Keith stuff, read it now and you hear that voice, a voice like no other that spoke of the world he saw and the world he knew, and he let you into it for a little while. And it wasn't a shopping trip.
Books and places like here are where those things are now, and thanks for that.
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