THE COWBOY CODE: When I

THE COWBOY CODE: When I was at the Feb. 15 rally in NYC, one of the funnier signs I saw read “Stop mad cowboy disease!” Then last Sunday, I was talking with my friend Charles Morrill who said he really wished Dubya could live up to Gene Autrey’s cowboy code.
How so? I said. (I didn’t tell him I have only the faintest idea who Gene Autrey is or was.) Charles said he really wanted to write something along these lines– but who would publish it?
I will, Charles, I said. So here it is.