Tom Doniphon respects Libertarian (Liberty) Valance's right to live life his own way, as long as Valance doesn't bother him. After killing attorney Stoddard and most of the townsfolk, Valance eventually dies of cirrhosis.
A Fistful of Gold Eagles
The Man With No Government ID arrives in a town where two leading families, the Rojos and Baxters, are each printing their own currency not tied to the gold standard. He maneuvers each side's forces into killing off the other, then takes the gold.
I posted this last year, but, given the season, I thought I should re-post it. It's a story I wrote many years ago, stuck in a drawer and forgot about. In 2009, I was going through the drawer and found it, and promised myself that I would not put it back in the drawer again.
Sometimes, good, novel recipes are borne out of desperation. I had that happen to me recently when I found myself with only one egg and needed to make a two egg omelet. In lieu of the other egg, I substituted Greek yogurt (which I had on hand).
William McRaven - I had never heard of him, but I gather he helped nail OBL.
Ai Weiwei - a noted protestor himself.
Paul Ryan - He represents what they were protesting.
Kate Middleton - WTF?
The president pondered the two messages. The first, from an African country's deposed president whom he did not know, was warm and supportive, offering to share assets that would otherwise fall to undeserving usurpers.
How could his African peer have known how close Lincoln himself had, again and again, faced the same risk of failure at the hands of rivals? There are connections between kindred hearts, he thought. Not just wires, but connections of a spiritual composition.
The senator from New York, his breath smelling of whiskey and his stump smelling of wet rust and wetter babies, at last exhausted himself and took leave. The president was free now to peek in at Mrs. Lincoln and then to have an hour to review his comments for Pennsylvania.
As a denizen of Mama D's Arts Bordello in New York City, I participated in a unique project -- the creation (er, finding) of a long lost episode of Magnum P.I. Four writers collaborated on this (I did the ending) and the fine folks at Mama D's turned it into what I think is quite an amusing Podcast. Thought you all might like Magnum P.I. in "The Curse Of The Kok'A'No'Worka."
