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Blame And (a Little) Praise

July 2026
1min read

In preparing my contribution to the “Overrated & Underrated” feature, I wrote of the “respected” Apache leader Cochise. Perhaps the adjective was too lukewarm, but unlike the “respectable” that was somehow misprinted as its replacement, it would have been neither patronizing nor irrelevant.

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