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The Silverton Depot bombing and the Golden Goose syndrome

On our fear of killing the goose that laid a golden egg, even if it's killing us

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Oct 10, 2025
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Editor’s Note: I’m having a travel day (well, actually, a travel half-week) and so I thought I’d re-up a piece, modified a bit, that I ran back in 2021 before many of you had subscribed or even knew about the Land Desk. It seems every bit as relevant today as it did then, if not more so. Only now there’s a whole new golden goose that we weren’t even thi…

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