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Hang on to your seat. This is going to be hard driving piece of investigative journalism. PSSSST!!! I know where to find Mexican bologna.  My interest was piqued late last year when I learned about the arrest of a man smuggling Mexican bologna into the US inside a spare tire in a vehicle headed toContinue reading “The Mexican bologna confidential…”

Chester picked it wrong for the Super Bowl, going for Cincinnati over the Rams. He fears he has lost a lifetime supply of Milk Bones with his bet. And he apologizes for all of you who lost bets by following his pick.   But ever the optimist, Chester says “woof.” (Meaning there’s always next year.)

Last year, we challenged our rambunctious goldendoodle, Chester, to pick the Super Bowl by selecting one of two differently colored squeaky balls tossed to him in our back yard. He correctly picked Tampa Bay, so with a 1-0 record of choosing the winner, here is a video of his pick this year between the CincinnatiContinue reading “Chester picks the Super Bowl!!!”

Be sure to check tomorrow’s blog for a high quality video giving you an inside edge to win some big bucks at the Super Bowl this Sunday. 

Really. This is getting silly. A further read of the story which prompted my blog a couple of weeks ago revealed that a woman from Colorado passing through New Mexico was busted for smuggling an even bigger stash of Mexican bologna. This time, agents found 188 pounds of the meat stashed away in various placesContinue reading “And even more baloney…”

Maybe we should start being concerned about this trend.  In December, I wrote a blog about a man who was caught illegally transporting Mexican bologna into the United States at El Paso. The bologna had been stuffed inside a spare tire in the New Mexico man’s pickup truck. Spare tires are common places used toContinue reading “More baloney…”

A story in last week’s Albuquerque Journal gave me a double take. It was reported that a bull moose had somehow wandered into the town of Shiprock, NM, and was considered to be a potential threat to the local human population. Okay, take a deep breath. A moose in Shiprock? Now I don’t want toContinue reading “What’s next? Caribou in Carlsbad???”

GO PYGMIES!!! I suspect many of you never saw the story that the New Mexico Tech rugby team finished second in the national finals for small colleges in December. They finished one place higher than the New Mexico State University rugby team I coached in 1981 to finish third in the final four of collegiateContinue reading “Another rugby final four for New Mexico…”

In 2006, while excavating an area for the new Sweeney Convention Center in downtown Santa Fe, archaeologists found an unusual mix of items that had been tossed down a communal outhouse. As expected, there were many bottles of liquor, medicine (probably mostly alcohol) and laxatives (again, probably mostly alcohol) that had been dropped in theContinue reading “The weird thing they would find at our house are Barbie toes…”

Several things caught my eye today in the newspapers we read daily. The first was the announcement by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that. because of increasing teacher shortages in public schools in the state due to COVID, members of the New Mexico National Guard may be deployed to fill in as substitute teachers. This raisesContinue reading “Will they play reveille when classes start?”

In 1995, birds were making news in New Mexico. In the first instance, several emus were released (either accidentally or intentionally) in the Gila National Forest and were spotted multiple times running wild. One observer reported to authorities that he had seen “a really big turkey.” If it had been spotted further east in theContinue reading “Mutant turkeys and giving a hoot…”

My wife recently received a summons for jury duty, her third since we’ve lived in Las Cruces. (I’ve only served on one jury panel in my life, while living in Santa Fe more than 40 years ago.) Despite some occasional grumbling about it, my Nebraska farm girl wife — armed with straightforward and honest MidwesternContinue reading “Dodging Aunt Millie’s Tupperware party…”

In 2011, a 78-year-old man in Hobbs was trying to accommodate three young men who came to his his house late one evening asking to use a telephone for an emergency. He went to grab his cordless phone but when he came back, the three forced their way into the home, pushed him to theContinue reading “Not being June Cleaver…”

I think I’ve touched on this subject before, but a recent story out of Ohio made me think about it again. The story in Ohio involved the issuance of a new license plate. The plate, the first new design to be issued since 2013, was vetted by many different groups over its 15-month development. ItContinue reading “Something in New Mexico that’s idiot proof…”