Born in Brooklyn, New York, October 24th, 1870, he lived in East Orange, New Jersey, where he attended school. And from the age of sixteen to nineteen, Tasker Oddie lived on a ranch in Nebraska. After returning to New York City from Nebraska he attended night law school, from which he was graduated, and in…

My friend – I’ll call him Martin for the purpose of this story – is a former deputy sheriff. Martin doesn’t frighten nor shake easily when it comes to encountering unknown situations. Martin retired about a year ago, so I decided to visit him. Hours later, after driving to Siskiyou County in Northern California, we…

Overheard at the dinner table on Thanksgiving Day: “Hey, Mom, this stuffing’s great!” “Why, thank you, son.” “So how did you get the turkey to swallow it?” ******* May you and yours have a blessed and refreshing day. In that spirit I offer this prayer: Almighty God, giver of all good things, we thank you for…

While growing up in Klamath, I played in the dirt and mud, got my butt whipped with a belt, razor-strop, or a switch that I had to select, started my school day at MKS with the ‘Pledge of Allegiance,’ used paper bags to cover my school books, had an enforced bedtime, and rode in the…

There was all sorts of commotion going on Sunday morning in our neighborhood. Mary and I were awakened first by sirens and then the heavy thump of a low flying helicopter. Evidently, a man armed with a rifle, called the Sparks Police saying he was suicidal. They located Robert Brunsvold near Spanish Springs High School, jus’ off…

Obviously, President Barack Obama doesn’t care about the four-million immigrants waiting to get into the U.S. legally. And now, we do have a broken immigration system. On the evening of 104th Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, Obama said he would use his executive power to damage the U.S. through so-called ‘immigration reform,’ by blocking deportations…

Without a peaceful settlement by November 27th, Superintendent Odeneal requested Major John Green, commanding officer at Fort Klamath, to provide enough troops to force Captain Jack to move back to the reservation. The next day, Captain James Jackson, commanding 40 troops, left Fort Klamath for Captain Jack’s camp on Lost River. The troops, reinforced by…

The Reno-Sparks NAACP wants the Nevada State Assembly Republican Caucus to vacate its recent election of Sparks Assemblyman Ira Hansen as speaker after ‘questionable’ comments attributed to him appeared in a Reno paper. The Reno News & Review’s Dennis Myer, who was Nevada’s chief deputy secretary of state under Democrat Governor Bob Miller from 1987 to…

Bill Cosby is an outspoken Democrat. But over the past several years, Cosby has railed against ‘entitled’ Americans for their ‘thuggish’ behavior and for remaining uneducated. Cosby — since the 60s — has been telling the truth about society, through the lens of humor.  But now he’s on the Progressive ‘hit list’ of political correctness, for calling…

The idea of writing this day feels more like an act of procrastination. It comes from having a number of ideas on the brain and an inability to sort through them, to see which might be most appealing to waste ink over. There are many political ruminations I could consider, but they are like chicken scat on…