When I first learned about Tannerite I was stoked. For those who may be unfamiliar, Tannerite is a brand of binary explosive you can buy in just about any gun store in the country.
Just in case you missed it, Colorado had its first, possibly annual, ‘MeatOut Day’ back in March. In late February governor Jared Polis issued a formal, official gubmint proclamation...
A common phrase today is ‘not all heroes wear capes.’ You see it used with stories about regular people doing brave or noteworthy things, but it’s mostly meant as a joke.
John Steinbeck once said, “People don’t take trips . . . trips take people.” Which makes me wonder how he managed to write some of my favorite books...
‘Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her five-year mission: To explore strange, new worlds. To seek out new life, and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.’
When I started writing this column twenty-odd years ago, I wanted to call it The Outhouse. My wife objected on the grounds that I was an idiot, which was a difficult argument to refute.