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Eleanors38

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Gender: Male
Hometown: Austin, TX
Home country: USA
Member since: Tue Sep 18, 2012, 04:36 PM
Number of posts: 3,815

About Me

In former lives, I have been "SteveM" and "SteveW," and on DU since 2006. The above changes came as a result of my accounts being confused by a slight change in my e-mail. The process for untangling my "history" was too tedious to follow, and since my laptop crapped out March 2012 I have been off the Innertube. I have followed much of DU's stuff, however, and am now Eleanors38. Glad to be back.

Journal Archives

Checking in: My Father's Day tribute to Dad (1919-2005):

(1) Putting me through graduate school

(2) Standing by me when I said I wasn't going to be inducted into the draft (1970)

(3) Teaching me how to safely use and store firearms

(4) Taking me on hunts

(5) Standing up to powerful politicians when performing his duties

(6) Reading, editing and tolerating my attempts at writing

(7) Calling the racists who bullied girls at Little Rock High School "damned cowards!" That forged my values.

Thank you, Dad. Job very well done.

Oh, Nuclear, that is unforgiveable.

I would if I could afford it. Even hunting "plains" animals is $500+ a day.



Plus air fare & "trophy fees." I'll stick with my Hill Country deer and axis exotics.

Hello! New to the "new DU". How does the link work?

I have been on DU since 2006 as "SteveM" and "SteveW," but a new computer and a new account gets me past go without collecting $200 or retaining 10,000+ posts! Been having trouble with the link, and don't know how it works. Thanks in advance.

On the "lighter side," the Motown group Temptations may have mentioned "gun control"

for the first time in the popular arts. In their 1970 hit "Ball of Confusion," the second verse after the chorus has this:

Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul-shooting rockets to the moon,
Kids growing up too soon,
Politicians say, "More taxes will solve everything,"
The band played on.

IIRC, the term "gun control" was cited only two years earlier in the Democratic Party Platform. Anyone have earlier mentions?

The song is rather non-sectarian, citing all matter of problems like a shopping list. "...suicide, too many beers..." Many sites for lyrics to this song, but I haven't figured out how to post links yet, as my computer collapsed just after DU's overhaul.
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