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Top Shot: Sunlight Through the Smoke

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“A member of the Wyoming Hotshots uses a fusee, a flare that wildland firefighters carry to burnout out a short section of fireline,” writes Your Shot photographer Kyle Miller. “When there’s small fingers of unburned areas next to the fireline a common tactic is for firefighters to burn along the line so they can be there when the fire actively burns and is more prone to jump the containment line.” Photograph by Kyle Miller

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apparently about a decade ago some ski company made bumper stickers that said “Randonnée: French for can’t tele”, and not only is this one of the funniest things I’ve ever encountered, I absolutely need to see if any of these are still floating around so I can get my dad one for Christmas.

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bandana-roja:

Girl is a cop

I’m not defending her or anything but honestly, what do you expect? She’s a mainstream American politician. She might be better than most but if any politician at this point ran on a platform of not deporting anyone then they’d instantly be seen as too radical and “idealistic” by the media and the general public. I mean it took us a very long time before most people got on board with the idea that having a health care system similar to basically every other first world country wasn’t too radical. 

The context for this was that a 95-year old Nazi war-crime suspect who happened to live in the district for which she is running for Congress was finally deported (he was actually ordered to be deported 2004 but no country would accept him until now, when Germany finally agreed), and the GOP attacked her for it, and then when she clarified that yes, she still wants to abolish ICE but some deportation will be necessary, like the deportation of Nazis suspected of being war criminals, the left attacked her for that, because that makes her a cop.

I have to say, like 99% of immigrants aren’t in favor of abolishing deportation entirely. Why? Because a lot of us are running from people, like cartels and gangs and the like. If a cartel member decides to show up in Miami, I want the government to kick him right back where he came from. Not because I’m racist and think all Latinos are criminals, but because I know a shit load of people who left their homes to get away from the constant violence, kidnappings and terror that those people caused. I know people, journalists mostly, who left their homes because there’s hits out on them.

There was a big blizzard that blew through most of the southern half of the state last night, and a very nice kid came up to me today at the rest stop and said “Ma’am, I noticed you have a car*, and I wanted to–which way are you going? North or south?” 

I was incredibly taken aback and still in more of a “driving listening to the radio” frame of mind than a “talking to real live people” frame of mind, so I somewhat stupidly told him I was going west. (I mean, I was, but I was taking the road we were on north to my turnoff, not taking off to the west immediately through the sagebrush and snowdrifts.) 

He explained that he had noticed a lot of cars on the side of the road that had spun out and even one that had flipped (I had also noticed this, but it’s not exactly an uncommon sight after a blizzard and it hadn’t really phased me). I immediately responded “oh, coming up from Rawlins way?” to which he replied no, up from Medicine Bow way, and looked at me expectantly–at which point my embarrassment was complete and I quickly said goodbye and hustled myself back out to my car. You see, the highway we were on is the highway you take if you want to avoid going over Elk Mountain and through Rawlins, but I said Rawlins because I could not for the life of me think of the name of Medicine Bow.

I was so embarrassed about the whole encounter that it did not occur to me until half an hour later that he was concerned for my safety and was probably trying to offer me a ride. 

*a car as opposed to a truck, SUV, van, etc

me: I’m so good at knowing actors’ names now! I’m practically an expert! Hollywood better watch out!
friend: I just watched this great movie, it had that actor in it, you know? Name McNamerson?
me: …were they ever in a movie with Paul Gross?