The Old Gringo (who for too many years committed journalism and spewed opinion under the byline of Robert E. Cox in Colorado, California and some other places he’d rather not mention) mostly sits around these days amid the arroyos, cacti and cattle pastures of northern New Mexico.
Occasionally he drags something he wrote Back Then [...]
& I think it’s about time for me to tell this story. It’s been 42 years since it happened, but all this fol-de-rol about the President’s bodyguards cavorting in Cartegena with some money-grubbing hookers has got me thinking about it again.
It doesn’t have anything to do with prostitutes. But it does have to do [...]
A stand-your-ground question 31 years old: Does a former midget wrestler who flashes the clientele, beans the barkeep with a pool cue and threatens to come over the bar and put a hurt on the blitzed bartender deserve to die?
Marie Colvin didn’t have to die in the bombed-out debris of a Syrian hideout in Homs. So why was she there? You might want to think about it.
Nearly a half-century after unknown, privileged conspirators blew off John Kennedy’s head, the government still squirrels away secret files that might help us learn the full story of who did it. Is this a democracy?
& I sit here on a Sunday morning with the tv on, listening, sort of, to the seemingly unending recollections of the day a decade ago when the United States was attacked by a band of religious extremists. There are many memories being recalled and re-lived, honors being paid, and details being explained — again [...]
A shaggy, wet dog story that will leave you wondering, among other things, ‘do dogs burp?’
Just exactly what is it that we think we know about animals? Consider the elk and the marmot.
How James Keller endured an operatic attempt that “crept on” for three hours Saturday evening in Santa Fe…
A Santa Fe soldier gets the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Once again, we visit the hypocrisy of the world’s most-popular cults. A pox on all their lies, their cheating and their pontifications.
With Obama floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, poor old George Foreman, er, Eric Cantor, staggers around the ring and the canvas beckons…
Lost? Looking? Start here.
Sweet Tweets
- The day I almost got my butt blasted off by an Out-Of-Service U.S. Secret Service. A never-before-published memory. http://t.co/DxQXZ3IC
- C'mon Joe Johns @cnn-give @natenquirer credit for outing the @johnedwards tale. they, not a "tabloid", beat you guys. suck it up & admit it.
- An old stand-your-ground question from NY: Belligerent former midget wrestler threatens blitzed bartender, gets killed. http://t.co/aI8JQeqo
- 1000s rally for pot in Colo, Wyclef's bro filmed in CU mob toking up; But Wyclef, on stage, couldn't mention pot. Ha! http://t.co/xy8KXxuQ
The Old Gringo’s Older Stuff
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Interesting Opinion on Interesting Things
- HUNGRY GERALD From Paree to Pojoaque, one man’s literate love affair with food, etc…
- NEW MEXICO TELEGRAM More, more, more politix, flavored with the amazing spices of New Mexico
- NUMEX POLITICS – HAUSSAMEN Heath Haussamen report on the enchanting politics of the Land of Enchantment
- NUMEX POLITICS – MONAHAN Lots of Statehouse & insider stuff from Joe Monahan
- ROUNDHOUSE ROUNDUP From a veteran state government reporter, Steve Terrell
- TRAVELS WITH THE BLONDE COYOTE Great photography and tales from a lady who roams the trails of the great American West…
