Travel Thursday!
Continuing our tour of the United States, let’s visit Wisconsin! More specifically, let’s visit a place I’d really like to see, and hope to one day soon: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin.
Bonus: This is a historical oddity that I confess I haven’t watched all of yet, but am bookmarking here.
“Ridin’ the Dog” is a documentary from 1989 about taking Greyhound from Seattle to Chicago. The extra historical oddity here is: Studs Terkel narrates.
I want to wish everyone a happy National Buy a Gun Day today.
I’ve been kind of playing it down this year because, frankly, try finding a gun to buy in today’s environment. I encourage you to shop (since BAG day falls in the middle of the week, you can have through the weekend) but really, good luck.
As for myself, Mike the Musicologist and I plan to do some gun shopping over the weekend. But unless I find something extremely compelling, my plan for this year is to put more money into improvements and updates to my existing guns.
Also, Midway is offering me a screaming birthday deal on a chronograph with Bluetooth that I may just have to take advantage of…
Frank Jacobs, one of the old time “Mad” magazine guys.
…
When you’re a Red
You’re a Red all the way
From your first Party purge
To your last power play!
When you’re a Red,
You’ve got agents galore;
You give prizes for peace
While they stir up a war.
John Naisbitt, Megatrends guy.
Finally, Burt Pugach died on Christmas Eve last year, though his death was not widely reported until now.
I wrote a little about this case when his wife died, but that was a long time ago. In brief: Mr. Pugach was married, and carrying on an affair with Linda Riss. She found out he was married and broke it off. He wasn’t having any of that and continued to pursue her.
Finally, he hired thugs – he claims to “beat her up”. The thugs threw lye in her face and left her blind. Mr. Pugach was disbarred, his wife divorced him, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison, released after 14 years…
…and after being released, he married Linda Riss, and they stayed married until her death in 2013.
Mr. Pugach left a legacy of recriminations and legal challenges over changes in his will that left a majority of his $18 million in assets to his caregiver. The latest version of the will disinherited several friends and reduced a planned bequest to the foundation for the visually impaired that he had established to honor his wife, Linda Riss Pugach, who died in 2013.
His assets have been frozen while the challenges are adjudicated, said Peter S. Thomas, a lawyer for the foundation, and Peter Gordon, who had drafted earlier versions of Mr. Pugach’s will. Those earlier versions had provided about $10 million for the foundation and roughly $5 million for Shamin Frawley, the 52-year-old caregiver with whom Mr. Pugach (pronounced POO-gash) had been living in Flushing since last year.