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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War fo...
Lex Anteinternet: Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War fo...: I"m putting up this interesting Out Our Way cartoon from this day in 1946 as it refers to something we've discussed here before, ...
Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War foodstuffs.
I"m putting up this interesting Out Our Way cartoon from this day in 1946 as it refers to something we've discussed here before, and its a bit surprising.
What we've discussed here before is hunting during World War Two.
Here's where we looked at it earlier:
Lex Anteinternet: So you're living in Wyoming (or the West in genera...So what about World War Two?
I've always thought this was one of the more interesting threads on this blog, and it's one of the many ones I post and wonder why there's never any comments on it. But that's common for blogs. Usually, they don't get posts.
Anyhow, this cartoon by J. R. Williams sort of confirms what I'd suspected. Some people supplemented their table fare during the war by hunting.
Williams was, as we've discussed before, a Canadian cartoonist who moved to the U.S. with his family at age 15, locating in Detroit. He soon dropped out of school and became an apprentice machinist, providing topics for his cartoons which frequently depicted machine shops. He drifted after that, something not uncommon in that era, and worked as a cowboy in the West, as well as serving a three year stint on the U.S. Army as a cavalryman. All of that experience likewise reflected itself in his cartoons. Family life, in spite of his being a bit short (again, not all that uncommon for the time) also featured frequently.
He became a professional cartoonist in 1922 and remained one until his death in 1957 at age 69. He'd used the proceeds of his cartoons to buy a ranch in Arizona, before relocating later on to Pasadena, California. His cartoons carried on to some extent after his death in the hands of other artists.
Anyhow, one of the things about his cartoons is that depict fairly accurate slices of life, and this running gag from 1945-46 no doubt did. The father has taken an elk and a deer, and the family is keeping it in the ice box. The part that surprises me is that I really like venison, and these cartoons suggest that this venison was bad, which may be explained in an earlier cartoon I'm not familiar with.
Eighteen nations entered into an Agreement on Reparation from Germany.
"Southern Resorts Fashions" were on the cover of Life.
Last edition:
Sunday, January 13, 1946. The relentless advance of malevolent technology.
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: Friday, January 11, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt and ...
Lex Anteinternet: Friday, January 11, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt and ...: Theodore Roosevelt engaged a mountain lion in hand to hand combat in Colorado. Soon we saw the lion in a treetop, with two of the dogs so hi...
Friday, January 11, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt and the Mountain Lion.
Theodore Roosevelt engaged a mountain lion in hand to hand combat in Colorado.
Soon we saw the lion in a treetop, with two of the dogs so high up among the branches that he was striking at them. He was more afraid of us than of the dogs, and as soon as he saw us he took a great flying leap and was off, the pack close behind. In a few hundred yards they had him up another tree. Here I could have shot him (Tony climbed almost up to him, and then fell twenty feet out of the tree), but waited for Stewart to get a photo; and he jumped again. This time, after a couple of hundred yards, the dogs caught him, and a great fight followed. They could have killed him by themselves, but he bit or clawed four of them, and for fear he might kill one I ran in and stabbed him behind the shoulder, thrusting the knife you loaned me right into his heart. I have always wished to kill a cougar as I did this one, with dogs and the knife.
Theodore Roosevelt, Letters to His Children.
Found: The World’s Oldest Poisoned Arrows
Found: The World’s Oldest Poisoned Arrows: Scientists have found the oldest known poisoned arrows, dating back 60,000 years. These small quartz arrowheads unearthed in South Africa are laced with plant toxins. This means the use of poison for hunting started tens of thousands of years earlier than we thought. The arrow tips came from the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal Province, […]
Friday, January 9, 2026
Four Dead in Last Month From Animal Attacks in Nepal
Four Dead in Last Month From Animal Attacks in Nepal: In southern Nepal, tigers, leopards, and rhinos are more dangerous than avalanches and altitude sickness are in the high Himalaya.
Lex Anteinternet: Voices of Kalaallit Nunaat: An open call to Greenlanders, and musings.
Lex Anteinternet: Voices of Kalaallit Nunaat: An open call to Greenl...: An interesting blog entry by a native Montanan. Voices of Kalaallit Nunaat An open call to Greenlanders I note this in part because she...
Voices of Kalaallit Nunaat: An open call to Greenlanders, and musings.
An interesting blog entry by a native Montanan.
Voices of Kalaallit Nunaat
An open call to Greenlanders
I note this in part because she's a nature writer, and native Montanas are close to nature, like native Wyomingites.
Indeed, I've tended to find since Donald Trump reared his New York overfunded balding head that real Trump backers in my home state either lack education, or tend to be imports. I know part of that is a really harsh judgement, but I don't find too many natives, in any demographic, who are fire breathing Trumpites who are exceptions to this rule. There are, I'd note, educated Trumpites here, for sure, but they tend to be imports.
I think people know what the unrestrained wealth and exploitation mean to Wyoming, and that helps explain it. Wyomingites are, if they are real Wyomingites, conservative/libertarians but not populists really.
Imports who move here, however, including some who claim to be us, or want to be us, often are Southern Populists at heart. Indeed, a couple of years ago I was out in the sticks and saw a giant Stars and Bars flying above somebody's camp tent, something that, when I was young, would stood a good chance of having been ripped down by any native passing by.
I've written a lot about how we got here. The question now, is how we get out. We'll be getting out, one way or another. The question is, however, whether a rational conservatism can emerge that's free of the horrific elements that Trump has interjected into what's passing for conservatism now, or whether it will pass the way the way that French conservatism did after Vichy. I think, frankly, the latter is more likely.
If conservatism can survive Trump, which frankly I very much doubt, when it reemerges it's going to have to rebuild a lot nationally and internationally that Trump and his minions have utterly destroyed. More likely, however, what will emerge after this era is a renewed liberalism countered only by a somewhat middle of the road liberalism. Again, France provides the model. After the Second World War the French Third Republic was dominated by the hard left, including a very powerful communist party, countered only really by a centrist to liberal centrist Catholic party. The French right died.
I suspect that's the country's political future, in a way. Starting in 2026 the Democrats will regain the House and, if Trump is still in power, provide a block to an outraged and increasingly insane Trump. By 2028, the Senate is likely to go Democratic too, assuming it doesn't in 2026. The White House will have a legitimate President following the 2029 election who will almost certainly be a Democrat.
That President, whether he's Republican or Democrat, and who won't be J. D. Vance or Marco Rubio, is going to have a big task in front of him. Part of that will be to repair the international damage done by Trump.
Not all of it will be capable of being repaired. A western world that had depended upon the U.S. to be the world leader of Western ideals will never, and I mean never, trust the U.S. again.
But the U.S. will also be much diminished in the Western Hemisphere, in spite of what Trump, Vance, and Rubio think. In South American a new block will emerge, likely with former major rivals Argentina and Chile as the leadership, but with Brazil, a massive country in extent and population, more significant than the U.S. Canada will be regarded as a serious, educated, intelligent nation by the Europeans. The U.S. will still have weight in the world, but in the way that France or the United Kingdom do now, save for Asia where the U.S. will still be a major presence. We will have been forced to look to the Pacific, as so many in the past have urged us to do in the past, by Trump and the Republican party soiling our relationships with our intellectual home.
Basically, we will have been the kid that left home, got into drugs, and embarrassed everyone. We'll be the Hunter Biden of Western nations.
Domestically, we're going to have a lot of repairs to do. A new President will quietly accept much of what Trump has done in immigration. The damage done to trade economics will likely have repaired by them, the tariffs having by then settled into an economic background as part of a new system which will not generate all that much in income but which countries are by then used to. Businesses won't come back to the U.S. due to them, and the Rust Belt dreamers will have gone on to despair. The Agricultural sector will be barely reviving, I'd guess, from a Trump induced economic collapse by that time.
The U.S. will return to environmental and conservation sanity and begin to try to make up lost ground and lost damage, in part because its role in the world will have been so decreased that it will have no choice. Fools who insisted that we had to grab Venezuelan oil as China was going to will wake up and find that China will, by 2028, be using largely electric, not gasoline, vehicles. Europe won't be far behind, and a U.S. auto industry that will wish to sell will have advanced in this direction, with U.S. consumers, less enamored with a 19th Century economy than Donald Trump, will have as well.
If Trump's "Travis, you're a year too late" petrol pipe dreams will have achieved little, and they will, perhaps a revival of nuclear power might actually make a difference. Like many of Trump's policies, or those who used Trump to gain position, that policy on the margin of his larger policies, would be beneficial. The pipedreams about coal and oil, however, will go nowhere and already are going nowhere. Indeed, Wyoming's coal fortunes, so desperately pinned on Trump, are going nowhere at all, and the price of oil in the state is down in the disastrous levels.
In larger things, people sometimes ponder the existential "problem of evil", that being why does God allow bad things to occur. A common answer is that God does not allow it unless a greater good can come out of it. While I don't want to go so far as to claim to detect a Devine hand at work here, I wonder if a bit if we're going to see something like that occur.
The country that comes out of Trump Drunk in 2028 with a bad hangover is going to be a much lesser nation. Maybe that's a good thing, particularly of Europe, where we derived our culture from, revives to claim a larger place. We'll need to get used to being told what we will do, and like a bratty teenager, which we've proven ourselves to be, we'll have to get used to that. Our Evangelical Puritanism which most Americans assume is Christianity will have taken a sharp hit. Our botching foreign wars will end as nobody will really trust us much as a solo actor. Nations that need alliances, and many do, will look to us only in concert with others, which will make them safer. Taiwan and South Korea will look to Japan, and perhaps to Australia. Europe will look to ourselves. Nobody will care one wit about us, and we'll have to look, pleadingly, to everyone else. Our environmental destructivism will start to come to an end. Our cultural imperialism will come to an end, as nobody will admire a country that could produce such vile characters as Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, or Jeffrey Epstein. Our absolute lust for the wealthy, that came in with Ronald Reagan, who looks less and less like a hero, will come to an end as well as we have to face a Republican ramped up budget crisis the only way we can, taxes, and taxes on the wealthy.
Not all of Trump's legacy, including the tiny positive portions of it, or the negative massive aspects of it, will go away. Trump has destroyed the post World War Two United States. But the country itself will survive, and rebuild, and probably be better than it was before.
Perhaps the U.S. can get back to being the U.S.
Oh, and Greenland will be independent. Americans won't really be welcomed there. The U.S. military won't be there.
Wyoming’s Coursey leads National Wildlife Refuge System audit that’s igniting sell-off worries
Wyoming’s Coursey leads National Wildlife Refuge System audit that’s igniting sell-off worries: Former wildlife officials warn Trump-appointed team they can’t haphazardly dispose of refuge land, though many support a review of the embattled national system.
Thursday, January 8, 2026
National Guard pilot admits to landing Black Hawk helicopter to pick up elk antlers The Montana soldier entered a no-contest plea to trespassing charges for landing a UH-60 helicopter on a remote ranch to collect elk antlers.
What's the fun of having access to a helicopter if you can't use it?
National Guard pilot admits to landing Black Hawk helicopter to pick up elk antlers
Judge sides with developer of controversial Casper Mountain gravel pit
Judge sides with developer of controversial Casper Mountain gravel pit: Prism Logistics' state leases are not subject to county regulations, judge rules, and the company's request for lease extensions is remanded back to the state.
Former Colorado wildlife boss Jeff Davis hired as Wyoming Game and Fish deputy director
Former Colorado wildlife boss Jeff Davis hired as Wyoming Game and Fish deputy director: State agency director resigned under pressure in November and weeks later signed on to replace recently retired Doug Brimeyer.
Apparently Wyomingites are qualified.
Wyoming’s New Deputy Game And Fish Director Is Former Controversial Colorado Chief
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Hiker Killed by Mountain Lion in Colorado, First in 25 Years
Hiker Killed by Mountain Lion in Colorado, First in 25 Years: The woman hiker's death marked the first fatal mountain lion attack in the state in over 25 years.
Monday, January 5, 2026
Backer of controversial Seminoe hydroelectric project proposes new tack
Backer of controversial Seminoe hydroelectric project proposes new tack: Local stakeholders say the project simply requires too many unacceptable impacts for the unique, and lucrative, outdoor recreation hotspot.
Sunday, January 4, 2026
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Friday, January 2, 2026
The year in Wyoming wildlife: Fed cuts, critters, CWD, cheatgrass and tensions over development
The year in Wyoming wildlife: Fed cuts, critters, CWD, cheatgrass and tensions over development: Rich and important stories about Wyoming landscapes and their inhabitants are a mainstay every year, and 2025 was no exception.
Thursday, January 1, 2026
The 2026 Resolute Edition:
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From last year:
The 2025 Resolute Edition.
I posted elsewhere that I was going light on New Years Resolution posts, and I basically, kind of sort of, have.
None the less, I have some out there.
New Year's Resolutions for Other People, sort of.
New Years Day. Looking at 2024 through the front of the Church doors.
This blog has a completely different theme, rather obviously. So what I'd normally do is post some personal and more universal items. I'll just do both here, in the worried sort of way both of the above posts are.
This blog is heavily invested in the concept of Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic, which is:
The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.
Aldo Leopold.
We also have a very holistic view of things, in the true meaning of the word. That is, everything is connected. And we also, as people here know, have a very Agrarian, Wendell Berry, view of the world. We are part of nature and we need to acknowledge that, and be true to our natures.
We haven't been acting like that for quite some time. And both the political left, and the political right, are guilty of that.
The populist right, of course, just came into power. And much of its political ethos is based on ignorance combined with the love of money. At no point in American history since 1860, when the Southern wealthy lead the Southern yeoman into a fight to preserve something that benefited the rich, and not the poor, has one class so fogged the intellect of another such that those who stand most to be hurt by developments are fully backing them.
Nearly everything those who love the outdoors, use the outdoors, or depend on the outdoors will be under full out assault in the next four years.
Sportsmen, agrarians, conservationist, farmers, ranchers and environmentalist will have to be very much on guard the next four years. Sadly, many in some of these categories vote for the very forces that stand to hurt, or even destroy them.
Why would I repeat that?
Well, everything I said last year is still true, and even more so.
We have there member from this state in Congress who were ready to completely screw public land users in spite of an overwhelming protest from Wyomingites. One of the three, Harriet Hageman, is now running for the Senate. This is the chance to retire her and send her back to the state and family she cites as her guiding lights.
It's also a chance to get rid of Californian Chuck Gray, a figure who washed up on shore here some time ago to try to advance his political career and who has proven that Wyomingites have a rampaging inferiority complex. He needs to go, and by going, I mean he needs to go back to California and be deprived of family money and busy work and find out what its like to actually have to work for a living.
Lots of people who have washed up in Wyoming, I'd note, and ended up in the Freedom Caucus fit that exact same description .They need to go back to where they're from. We can wish them well at the Natrona County International Airport and play Dixie for them as they depart, and then adjourn to the bar for drinks thereafter.
The sooner the better.
In short, we need to start living, behaving, and acting like we actually value the things we claim we do.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Rep. Bill Allemand arrested for drinking and driving
Rep. Bill Allemand arrested for drinking and driving: Wyoming Freedom Caucus member allegedly admitted that ‘he drinks while driving for anxiety,’ Johnson County Sheriff’s Office report says.
I suppose its an example of Schadenfreude, but Allemand is a an enemy of sportsmen and public lands, as well as being a central figure in an effort to kill a proposed industrial project north of Natrona County's Bar Nunn.
He's notably a Wyomingite, albeit one who spent most of his working life in Kansas, whose positions on things match the Freedom Caucus's, anti public lands, anti nuclear for some reason and pro whatever goofball thing the Freedom Caucus is for. In his first run for office he was downright nasty to his opponent, and frankly the residents of his House district are not to be admired for voting for him in that election.
During the last legislature he sponsored a bill to really jack up the penalties for trespassing while hunting. On that, it's notable that he's from a large ranching family in northern Natrona County, although he's not a rancher himself.
The drinks "for anxiety" comment suggests that he probably should be pitied, however, and that he might have some sort of a problem.
Anyhow, if he goes, and he might have been on the way out due to his role in torpedoing the project north of Bar Nunn anyhow, it may be a good thing for public lands users and sportsmen, depending upon who replaces him.
Natrona County Rep. Allemand charged with DUI in Johnson County
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Wyoming’s wildlife isn’t for sale, or at least it shouldn’t be
Wyoming’s wildlife isn’t for sale, or at least it shouldn’t be: Draft legislation to allow landowners to sell hunting licenses issued to them violates the principle of wildlife as public trust, write Bob Lanka and Tom Ryder.
Monday, December 29, 2025
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Feds propose ending ban on climbing route development in Tensleep Canyon — again
Feds propose ending ban on climbing route development in Tensleep Canyon — again: The Forest Service resumes the long-delayed process to manage climbing in the popular canyon. Now it’s seeking public feedback.
Drillers say ‘political process’ outweighs environmental law in Wyoming oilfield
Drillers say ‘political process’ outweighs environmental law in Wyoming oilfield: The government is illegally allowing a Trump donor’s drilling company to skirt a court ruling that halted development at a Delaware-sized oilfield, conservationists claim.
Greater sage grouse advocates blast new federal plan endorsed by Wyoming
Greater sage grouse advocates blast new federal plan endorsed by Wyoming: The imperiled bird has been “screwed over” in the last decade, critics say, but Wyoming’s grouse leader says conservation remains intact despite feds' changes.
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
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Friday, December 19, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Windy.
Lex Anteinternet: Windy.: 144 MPH Wind Gust On Wednesday One Of The Strongest Ever Recorded in Wyoming
Yellowstone grizzly range contracts by 4%, while ‘Northern Continental Divide’ bears gain 12% more ground
Yellowstone grizzly range contracts by 4%, while ‘Northern Continental Divide’ bears gain 12% more ground: Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem trends — which include another high mortality year — are not a cause for concern, federal and state grizzly bear managers say.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
GPS Watch Recorded Bear Attack Victim’s Terrifying Final Moments
GPS Watch Recorded Bear Attack Victim’s Terrifying Final Moments: The watch showed when the man suddenly veered off the mountain trail, as the bear dragged him into the bush. And it recorded when his heart stopped beating.
Wyoming already put in the work on Rock Springs plan. We should respect it.
Wyoming already put in the work on Rock Springs plan. We should respect it.: The Rock Springs Resource Management Plan, if changed, could jeopardize the Northern Red Desert and Golden Triangle, writes Julia Stuble.
Black bears are thriving and reclaiming old Wyoming haunts, even amid record hunting
Black bears are thriving and reclaiming old Wyoming haunts, even amid record hunting: When the West was being settled, black bears were wiped out from much of their native range. Slowly, they’ve reoccupied much of that habitat in Wyoming and beyond.
Monday, December 15, 2025
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Friday, December 12, 2025
Gordon pares back Wyoming’s first pronghorn migration, overriding Game and Fish commissioners
Gordon pares back Wyoming’s first pronghorn migration, overriding Game and Fish commissioners: A long-delayed migration corridor designation advanced by Wyoming's governor is preferred by the livestock industry. It forgoes protections for animals that use the Red Desert and Golden Triangle.
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