by Phil Butler, New Eastern Outlook:
In the old West, there was a term for every person or entity. We’ve lost touch with some of the most effective ones in modern times. Take the word “dry-gulcher,” for instance. In the cowboy days, this kind of individual (or group of dry gulchers) was highly derogatory, the basic meaning being someone who betrays another at a moment’s notice. Dry-gulching, bushwacking, and even addle-headed terms fit today’s Western leadership and a few Russians. Let’s look at what’s happening with some scallywags and ambushers who make honest sodbusters want to “shoot the cat” (vomit).