The Ammunition Famine – by Bart Stinson
The sheriff here told a Gannett reporter in March that his department’s cost per round of ammunition has risen about 25 percent over the past year. He was paying 23 cents last year, so we…
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Reichstag Arson: Blueprint for 2021 Insurrection Hoax – by Bart Stinson
A Brief History of Agents Provocateurs I moved back to Alaska in 2010, the year that incumbent U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski and her primary challenger both pledged to support the Republican nominee, no matter which…
Assassinating Democracy – by Bart Stinson
I was in the Dallas airport on November 22, and I decided to go downtown and walk the scene, again, of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. I’ve been there several times before, acquainting myself with the geography…
$14 Trillion in Slavery Reparations – by Bart Stinson
White Is a Color Redd Foxx’s character Fred delivered a sly zinger in a Sanford and Son episode when a tone-deaf white police officer asked him whether a criminal suspect was “colored.” “Yeah,” Fred replied,…
My White Privilege Complaint – by Bart Stinson
There was a ritual when we came in from the boondocks to visit my grandma on Vanderburgh Lane in Evansville. Before we got out of the driveway and entered the house, weather permitting, she took…
Make America Free Again – by Bart Stinson
I broke out my favorite patriotic tee shirt for the Fourth of July again this year. There’s a flag. There are silhouettes of geared-up soldiers, and the text in a cursive font: “Home of the…
How Not to Be Admired – by Bart Stinson
Generation Z Role Models I’ve noticed an emerging theme in university advertising for prospective students, whether on hometown highway billboards or in airport displays in distant cities. The ads show images of young people…
Genius and Irony – by Bart Stinson
I commute weekly to work at a very large out-of-state company with a lot of employee breakrooms, and a unionized workforce that bids on its job schedules and break areas, based on seniority. There is…
The Value of a Job – by Bart Stinson
Labor Day is making a comeback nowadays as economic issues have become more contentious. Class warfare is in vogue. And I have to admit that I am, by instinct, a class warrior. I resent and…
Liberation Day, 1944 – by Bart Stinson
On the Crucible We observed the 75th anniversary of the World War II Normandy invasion with solemn gravity this past June, and rightly so. But July 21 passed without mention in Evansville. On that morning…