FEATURED COLUMN: THE GUMSHOE
Ayn Rand Meets William of Ockham
"The hardest thing is to explain the obvious to people who refuse to see it. ... The simplest solution is almost always the best." ...
Circus Music & Clowns
Circus music along with clowns always made young Gumshoe experience feelings of anxiety deep within the pit of his belly. A definite queasiness to...
Synchronicity or Chance?
"A good cop always relies on his past experience, training, and “gut instinct” to catch the misanthropes." ...
“Corruptio Optimi Pessima”
"Where have the best and the brightest gone? A cry in the wilderness unanswered? Perhaps maybe in time to come, there is hope. A ton of darkness cannot snuff out the smallest candle." ...
Precarity
"Be aware of your sixth sense for survival and act upon it as if your life depended upon it — it does!"
Two Knock Outs
“What did you have for breakfast Danny?” That question was posed to me by Dr. Good as I lay supine or better yet splayed...
Where Are the Hard Men?
"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times." ...
Coal Dust Memory
Gumshoe awakened at “0-dark thirty” last night with this old adage on his sleepy mind, “Yesterday’s tomorrow’s are today’s past”. Hmmm? Sort of an...
Iron City Cement Mix
It was one of those sticky humid hot days during one of gumshoe’s teenage summers as I watched my father, Dominic Daniel Pitocco, pour...
