Monthly Archives: November 2020

APOCALYPSE NOW AND THEN by Peter Nolan Smith

November 10, 2020 – 1:56 pm

In 1968 I lied about my age and tried to enlist in the Marines soon after my 16th birthday. My mother refused to sign the papers. The Tet offensive fed her doubts about the final outcome of the Vietnam Conflict. Boys were returning in coffins, wheelchairs, or hooked on heroin. Returning soldiers were portrayed as […]

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Damn Old White Chicken Neck

November 9, 2020 – 7:31 pm

Back in the last century a Chinese Fair arcade had a chicken trapped in a glass box with a hot plate forcing the poor chicken to dance or play Tic-Tac-Toe. The arcade was closed in 2011. Today Senator Old Chicken Neck McConnell of Kentucky reject reason in favor of appealing to his Nailed God adherents […]

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The Concession Speech of FDTrump

November 9, 2020 – 5:23 pm

The pollster and mainstream media predicted a sweeping victory for Joseph Biden, however on November 2, 2020 the supporters of FDTrump turned out in record numbers to win the Florida and Ohio electoral votes. I stay up late and watched the counts from Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania teeter-totter between the two candidates. FDTrump was outraged […]

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Fried Chicken Feets

November 9, 2020 – 6:47 am

White people don’t eat chicken feet. Ham Hocks or Eisbein might be tasty for Germans and other Aryan races, but chicken feet have never graced the menus of Mickey Ds, although there is no telling what part of the chicken KFC doesn’t use in their nuggets. Chicken feet are for poor people from the Deep […]

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Dominoes With A Chicken

November 9, 2020 – 2:21 am

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?” ― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

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