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I’ve grown increasingly less enamored with social media. In years past, I would often share pictures and accounts of my travels and the classes I teach on Facebook. I’m spending less and less time on that platform these days. I’ve never had an Instagram account. I rarely use LinkedIn. I stopped posting my articles […]Governor Jeff Landry and Elon Musk made the announcement this week, Elon and SpaceX are going to build a launch facility near Pecan Island, LA. There are lots of good reasons to build a spaceport on the coast and Musk chose Pecan Island as the place he wanted to build.
Termite sent me this graphic, which deserves wide distribution.
We wish Musk and SpaceX good things and we hope that Louisiana serves his needs and the needs of the broader community for years to come.
In the first Dayattherange suppressor accuracy test, my Air Force buddy DM took seven rimfire suppressors, the Vudoo 360 carbon-fiber rifle and Lapua Midas+ to the range to answer what sounded like a simple question: Can a suppressor actually make a precision rimfire rifle more accurate? That first test gave us some interesting answers—but it […]
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- "How were those 'Freedom Fuel' stations selling gas so cheaply?" you ask. Well, you may wanna sit down for this one.
- A petri dish of human brain cells is in hell. Sort of.
- One of the last great stop-motion animation SFX houses is closing its doors. Check out all the great memorabilia from '70s-'90s sci-fi and fantasy movies in the photos at this link!
Police said a group came to a towing company in the area looking for a vehicle that had been repossessed.
The department said two people went inside to speak with the owner when an altercation began and one of the people searching for the vehicle, later identified as Darius Jones, pulled out a weapon.
Officers said the business owner pulled out a weapon of his own to defend himself and shots were exchanged between the two.
It's rare that we see an honest-to-goodness saint these days. It's even rarer to see one in the entertainment industry. Dolly Parton was one.
Her father never learned to read, growing up in Depression era eastern Tennessee, but she always said that he was really intelligent and always wondered what he could have done if he had had access to books. So she started her Imagination Library 31 years ago.
The charity has given away a third of a billion children's books. I don't think that I've seen anyone in my lifetime (celebrity or not) that has had this big a positive influence world wide.
As I said, a saint.
Her enormous success as an entertainer allowed her to do this. Here is a quick recap of just how enormous that success was. Note that the numbers are low because I took them from a 16 year old post, so she was even bigger than this:
- She was called the "Iron Butterfly" for her tough business negotiation, having turned down Elvis' (Elvis!) request to cover I will Always Love You. He wanted too much money - half of all royalties in perpetuity. She said no.
- She was Entertainer of the Year - one of only seven women who have ever been given this award.
- 45 Grammy nominations, 7 awards (she wuz robbed). Two Academy Award nominations.
- Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year. Country Music Hall of Fame, and Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
- A 2003 tribute album to her featured covers of her songs by Melissa Etheridge, Allison Kraus, Shania Twain, Norah Jones, and Sinead O'Connor. Yowzer.
- American Idol had a "Dolly Parton" night where everyone had to perform one of her 6000 (!) songs.
Yet she said that the greatest honor she's received is a bronze statue
on the Courthouse lawn in her hometown. She was more properly called Dr.
Dolly Parton - she received an honorary degree for her decades of work
to increase literacy. Eastern Tennessee had a real problem with that
when she was born in 1946.
Through it all, she's kept her sense of humor. Famous (or infamous) for
her showy outfits and huge wigs (among - ahem - other things), she has
been known to say "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap." When Dolly was originally on the UK TV's Graham Norton Show, Graham was wearing quite a loud suit, for which he apologized. Without batting an eye, Dolly said Don't you worry yourself, my aunt had a sofa just like it. It was instant chemistry, and Norton and Parton became great friends, to the point where he recorded a duet of Islands In The Stream with her at her theme park, Dollywood.
Unusually for an entertainment celebrity, she was married to her husband, Carl Dean, for almost 60 years until his death. When asked if she was going to remarry, she demurred, saying I don’t think I’ll ever be married but once. I think Carl’s waiting for me on the other side, and if I turned up at the pearly gates with somebody else, he wouldn’t like that! He’d be saying, ‘Who’s that little [bleep]? You leave him outside the gates and if the Lord wants him in here, you get on in here with me!
Needless to say, The Queen Of The World and I are huge Dolly Parton fans. There's a real sense of loss in her passing, that we shall not see her like again. But our loss is Heaven's gain. Like I said, a saint.
So long, Dolly. Thanks for making the World a better place.
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The shooting remains under investigation. Preliminary investigation indicates that the two men met up for the sale of a firearm. The 22-year-old then pulled a gun and attempted to rob the 20-year-old, and the two shot each other.
Police said their investigation has been consistent with the shooter's account of what happened. Cuts on Conley's arm were consistent with cuts from reaching through the door glass.
The shooter heard Conley trying to enter and repeatedly told her to leave. He also warned her that he was armed, police said.
Leesburg police said Conley continued attempting to gain entry, at which point he fired a handgun through the door, breaking the window. That's when she reached through the broken window in an attempt to open the door from inside.
The homeowner fired a second time, striking Conley and killing her, police said.
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We were all saddened to learn of the unexpected death of one of the most universally loved and admired Americans in history, Dolly Parton. When was the last time a celebrity died and no one had a bad word to say about them? She was the personification of kindness, of niceness, and of generosity. Not […]
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- Jim Grey has some beautiful color photos from downtown Columbus, Indiana and some neat B&W shots from a car show.
- Greg Ellifritz is thinking of starting a new series of articles on the historic gunfights that have shaped training over the years.
- Meta is hounding the author of Careless People. It might not go so well for them.
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