Category Archives: The Heartland

12. Mine to Give

I was in the middle of a serious WiiFit session when the door bell rang. I picked Molly the Corgi up because she is crazy and I walked over to the foyer. We don’t have windows or a peephole so I couldn’t see who it was before I opened the door. Standing there was a …

20 August, 2008 – 9:41 am | By Josh Berthume | Posted in Short Stories, Long Odds, Society, Texas, The Heartland | Comments (2)

The Strange Mean of Weekend Pipe Bombs

I have discovered an odd truth about violent risk in the United States, particularly the South and West.  In the course of my work as a risk analyst and a political scientist studying terrorism, I read a lot of news stories every day about suspicious packages, hazmat responses to weird mail, and pipe bombs. The …

1 July, 2008 – 9:41 pm | By Josh Berthume | Posted in Academics, Society, The Heartland | Comments (2)