Necessary Consultations Came For Appearances After the Fact BY LARRY LAHREN, Ph.D. It is not their intrinsic value as evidence that makes these bones newsworthy; rather the spin applied in disclosing that evidence. —Roger Downey, Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Man In May, 1968, Ben Hargis was removing fill material with a small, … [Read more...]
When Speed Runs in the Family
Montana Race Car Driver Headed for Indianapolis BY LISA BARIL 04/15/14 Spend a night at a Las Vegas roulette table, ride the Full Throttle roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain, or watch the season finale of the Walking Dead and you feel what every thrill-seeker feels: a racing heart, quickened breaths, sweaty palms and a heightened sense of awareness—so intense that … [Read more...]
Confessions of an Environmental Hypocrite
It’s Not Easy Being Green, and Feeling Guilty About It BY WAYNE HARE 04/15/14 I hate being called a hypocrite. But over the last year or so, I've come to realize something: I am one. I have long thought of myself as an environmentalist. I hang my laundry out to dry. I worked in public-land management for the U.S. Department of Interior. My truck gets good gas mileage. My … [Read more...]
Love of the Game
It’s That Time Again—Play Ball! BY DAVID S. LEWIS 04/15/14 First, let’s get one thing out of the way. There are those who say baseball is boring—only recently though, because you never heard that when many of us were kids, not if you go back a few years, before attention spans fell victim to video games, movies that rely on explosions and special effects rather than plots, … [Read more...]
Tom Horn’s War Dogs
Horn Arms Sixty Apaches, Pursues Renegades BY TOM HORN Originally published in 1904 Old Pedro [the Cibecue Apache chief] enlisted to scout against troublesome Apache [like Geronimo], my friend, was very glad to see all of us, and the first night I got to his camp he kept me up all night long, telling him of the Chiricahua outbreak and raid. ..After I had told him the whole … [Read more...]
What’s a Word Anymore?
A Lesson in Liberty BY DAVID S. LEWIS 04/15/14 It used to be that certain words were words and certain words were not—“ain’t” ain’t in the dictionary, they use to say, but now it is. And irrespective of how egregiously incorrect “irregardless” may be, that illigitimate offspring of a word now can also be found in dictionaries (with a usage note warning that careful users of … [Read more...]