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Shooting with Nathan

Shooting with Nathan

by grlucas on 09. Mar, 2010 in Personal, Politics

I seem to be preoccupied with guns lately, and Nathan is not helping. We spent just over an hour at the Macon Police Department’s shooting range yesterday. Nathan was practicing his black ops shooting techniques for something he’s writing, and I was educating myself about handguns.
One of the first things I learned is that owning [...]

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Who Are Those Guys?

Who Are Those Guys?

by grlucas on 07. Mar, 2010 in Film, Politics

The middle of George Roy Hill’s famous Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is essentially an extended chase scene. The authorities — whoever they might be, the US government, the Union Pacific Railroad, or the increasingly powerful banks — have gotten fed up with Butch and Sundance robbing their trains, so they set up the [...]

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Gun Fight

Gun Fight

by grlucas on 06. Mar, 2010 in Film, Politics

When I was a kid, Dad and I used to watch movies together. Our favorites were James Bond flicks, but we also got in the occasional western, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Silverado. I mean, what American male doesn’t love a good western? What could be more of an archetypical symbol of [...]

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Cut It Out

Cut It Out

by grlucas on 05. Mar, 2010 in (New) Media, Academia, Business, Politics

Talk of massive state budgets cuts for higher education has preoccupied everyone on campus for the last week. Ever since the state legislature decided that it might be a good idea to make up a budget shortfall of $1.1 billion by crippling the university system’s funding by $600 billion, the only business being done centers [...]

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