death Archives - T. Nelson Taylor - Author of Dust and Bolita - Official Site https://tnelsontaylor.com/tag/death/ Books and other friendly nonsense. Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:32:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/tnelsontaylor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/T-Shortcut-Icon.gif?fit=16%2C16&ssl=1 death Archives - T. Nelson Taylor - Author of Dust and Bolita - Official Site https://tnelsontaylor.com/tag/death/ 32 32 209703729 Grok’s Take — The Super License https://tnelsontaylor.com/groks-take-the-super-license/ https://tnelsontaylor.com/groks-take-the-super-license/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:24:50 +0000 https://tnelsontaylor.com/?p=1863 Back When A dozen years ago, I posited something overly ambitious: an idea to help slow the annual march of death and injury on America's roadways while saving those inclined to participate a lot of money—the Super License. Of course, nobody influential saw it because I'm an indie writer with a wingless gnat's platform. Doom,…… Continue reading Grok’s Take — The Super License

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]]> Back When A dozen years ago, I posited something overly ambitious: an idea to help slow the annual march of death and injury on America's roadways while saving those inclined to participate a lot of money—the Super License. Of course, nobody influential saw it because I'm an indie writer with a wingless gnat's platform. Doom,… Continue reading Grok’s Take — The Super License

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]]> https://tnelsontaylor.com/groks-take-the-super-license/feed/ 0 1863 The Hangman’s Ball https://tnelsontaylor.com/the-hangmans-ball-alex-taylor/ https://tnelsontaylor.com/the-hangmans-ball-alex-taylor/#respond Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0000 Prof. Taylor examines our never-ending culture of violence in this week’s Taylor Tuesday. Published in the Gainesville Times, November 29, 1988, his Crime Stories column features the career of Isaac “Hanging Judge” Parker, famous (or infamous) for his frequent use of ropes. I'm titling this one as "The Hangman's Ball". Commentary follows the column. Familiar…… Continue reading The Hangman’s Ball

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]]> Prof. Taylor examines our never-ending culture of violence in this week’s Taylor Tuesday. Published in the Gainesville Times, November 29, 1988, his Crime Stories column features the career of Isaac “Hanging Judge” Parker, famous (or infamous) for his frequent use of ropes. I'm titling this one as "The Hangman's Ball". Commentary follows the column. Familiar… Continue reading The Hangman’s Ball

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]]> https://tnelsontaylor.com/the-hangmans-ball-alex-taylor/feed/ 0 52 Gunfighting Blues https://tnelsontaylor.com/gunfighting-blues-alex-taylor/ https://tnelsontaylor.com/gunfighting-blues-alex-taylor/#respond Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:50:00 +0000 https://cinecapture.com/tnelsontaylor/2021/06/22/gunfighting-blues/ Gunfighting? A much younger me once asked my father if he ever drew his weapon and fired in the course of duty; had he ever participated in an actual gunfight? Was it like those we watched on the television or at the movies — Dirty Harry, etc.? His answer was usually stoic, reverent, and largely…… Continue reading Gunfighting Blues

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]]> Gunfighting? A much younger me once asked my father if he ever drew his weapon and fired in the course of duty; had he ever participated in an actual gunfight? Was it like those we watched on the television or at the movies — Dirty Harry, etc.? His answer was usually stoic, reverent, and largely… Continue reading Gunfighting Blues

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]]> https://tnelsontaylor.com/gunfighting-blues-alex-taylor/feed/ 0 63 The Super License https://tnelsontaylor.com/the-super-license/ https://tnelsontaylor.com/the-super-license/#respond Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:38:00 +0000 https://cinecapture.com/tnelsontaylor/2013/01/08/the-super-license/ You may have noticed my vitriolic tendencies toward the media’s misplaced sensationalisms regarding death and injury statistics. To paraphrase a Star Trek adage, the death of a few outweighs the deaths of the many. Not that one person’s death is any less important than another’s, no matter how it happened. Death and injury (we’re talking…… Continue reading The Super License

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]]> You may have noticed my vitriolic tendencies toward the media’s misplaced sensationalisms regarding death and injury statistics. To paraphrase a Star Trek adage, the death of a few outweighs the deaths of the many. Not that one person’s death is any less important than another’s, no matter how it happened. Death and injury (we’re talking… Continue reading The Super License

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