Choice Words

This week, Prof. Alex Taylor covers the meaning and origin of a few select words from the world of crime. To comment, time apparently never favors certain parts of language, as you shall soon see. This column was originally published, October 18, 1988 in Gainesville Georgia’s Times, usually found on the left of the first…… Continue reading Choice Words

In Arizona, The Gringos Get You

(Is there a Mexican Yakov Smirnoff?) A fragment of the old, Wild West, when justice often came self-served or not at all. As the years march, it fades further from memory, outside of its most famous occurrences, O.K. Corral, et al. So many other stories, particularly those with inconvenient, contentious, or even revisionist outcomes, fade…… Continue reading In Arizona, The Gringos Get You