I was recently immersed in an interview in The Sun, “Blind Hate: Randy Blazak on Why White Supremacy Persists.” One of Blazek’s points is how changing American demographics are affecting white males who grew up in a country dominated by “straight, white, able-bodied males.” In their hearts, they feel safe and important in settings of […]
Linda Paul
Posted inDecember 10, 2018: Critical Mass
‘Limousine liberals’ and ‘redneck riffraff’
In the excerpt from her new book, Desert Cabal, Amy Irvine speaks volumes of truth in a few carefully chosen words (“Contrarian Cowboy: A note to Edward Abbey,” HCN, 11/12/18). I nodded in recognition as she described the contrast of old-time rural folk with the vociferous shouts of urban activists who fail to recognize that […]
Posted inDecember 25, 2017: Bear Essentials
Soul and conscience
Reader responses to Linda Hasselstrom’s awfully honest poem about her father’s command to take care of the kittens reveal how little some of those readers understood her words, and how little they know about ranch life (“Heard Around the West,” HCN, 10/30/17). All too often it is urbanites, beleaguered by kittens they are too lazy […]
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Fathomable journalism
LoMonaco’s feature article is why HCN is one of only two publications that I loyally subscribe to. LoMonaco’s in-depth reporting is an example of excellent journalism. She unsnarls a monumentally complicated issue and makes it interesting and understandable, if not fathomable, to a general reader like me. Not many journalists go to as much trouble […]
Posted inDecember 12, 2011: Out on a limb
In appreciation of simplicity
What could be better than harvesting your own wild game without consuming gas by the minute and purchasing hundreds of dollars worth of gadgets to augment the “hunting experience” (HCN, 11/14/11, “Food and friendship, fossil-fuel free”)? Keep it simple. It helps that Nadia and Andrew live practically in the lap of a game reserve. But […]