Blondie, 12/23/21

Not to be smug, but the idea that cowboys on long-range cattle drives would kill the cows they were being paid to transport to market and then butcher and eat them out on the trail rang extremely false to me when I read this, and after about 15 seconds of Googling I found a Medium post from "a CPA who writes about a diverse set of topics including the American West, entrerpreneurship [sic], and the legalization of cannabis" that affirms my previously held opinion, so I'm going to go ahead and declare victory on this one. I'm not even going to bother looking up research on how many fortysomething dads are watching old western films with their teenage sons in real life in the year of our lord 2021, because I'm very sure the answer is zero.

Hi and Lois, 12/23/21