Tag: buffalo

• Found Winter Photo: Bison

  I’ll admit it.  I went looking for this one.  The American Bison evolved with their massive heads and necks so they could plow their way through the prodigious snows of the American Great Plains.  You probably know these animals colloquially as “buffalo,” but that is  a misnomer. Buffalo are a very different animal.   In…

  JunkChuck

  February 10, 2015

  Photo I Like

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• December 29, 1890: Wounded Knee Massacre

  While we’re all sitting about in our mid-Holiday malaise, drunk on sugar and fat, filled with drink and feasting and friendship and song, it should be mandatory to sober up for a moment or two and give some thought to one of the great, horrific, historical moments of our very checkered American past.  On a…

  JunkChuck

  December 29, 2014

  Commentary

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• HIPSTER GOD–Beards are Best

  I’ve been enjoying the current prominence of hipsters–I say prominence in respect to the temptation to write “fad” or “trend” because, unlike a lot of trends, hipsters are not so broadly defined, and much like polygamists and Seattle Seahawks fans they’re always out there, we’re just not used to seeing them in full plumage.  I…

  JunkChuck

  March 5, 2014

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